It was important, yes. It was an obvious thing, but it didn't make him any less sorry for missing it. A part of him, liked that he would have been a distraction from that.
At the stroking of his hair, he almost sank into Joseph, tilting his head to give him more to pet. It seemed so easy for him to calm the Tremere down, to catch his attention, to make him just want to lay there and be touched.
"I'm always nervous." Well, not always, but he was sure that didn't need to really be pointed out. All it had taken was taking his mind completely off everything. Easy peasy. "Maybe I should have asked, then..."