Maybe it was a -- a really good Swayze. Ben didn't know, because he was still sort of shocked numb to the fact that he was getting any amount of tangible anything in. Klaus being sober for over a month was -- amazing. Hard to believe, too. But also maybe that had a lot to do with this.
"A month?" he asked, bewildered and a little offended somehow, because it sort of just felt like Klaus had forgotten to include him (even though he was aware that wasn't how it worked, it didn't mean his feelings couldn't be hurt about it). "Where was I?"
But then there was hugging and Ben sort of just blanked out for a second there because it was such a new and different experience. He didn't even know what to do with it for a few seconds until his brain told him rather usefully to hug back. Which he did. It felt weird. It felt good.
"Uhm," he said after a beat of silence while he just took everything in. That was a good question, actually. Was there a breeze happening right now? Because it felt like it. And that sort of thing felt pretty alive. "Klaus. What's going on?"