Family Table.
Thomas hadn't brought a date. He didn't have an excuse for it, and most attempts to pry conversation out of him had resulted in trivial banalities that he delivered with an admirable illusion of attention. The most anyone could say was that he was present honestly.
The only real signs of actual life he had shown had been towards Luke, and even the reporters could tell he wasn't faking that. (Probably because he was fairly bad at faking any emotion.) He smiled (!) and shook his hand at the signing and, on Luke's other side, had a short conversation with him about his speech before he made it. Thomas had no idea what he said, but it was certainly encouraging, he was sure. He pretended not to notice the mess with Bunny, and he was doing a very good job of not staring at the press table, and his expression somewhat resembled Ramses III in stone relief.