If Vexen possessed the capacity to be touched, he certainly would be. As it is, he'll be glad when he does have one and thinks back on this. He's never really figured out whether Nobodies can have friends, or simply form bonds of convenience; he suspects the latter, since friendship implies emotional attachment.

Kida seems to come close, though. He has no reasons to be civil or expend energy on artificial emotional responses save for Even's memories, but those seem to be enough for now. He's certainly never considered plundering his homeworld and her people for his test subjects.

'I know you would not have,' he replies. 'You had no reason to, and as determined as I remember you, you were not a cruel or unnecessarily vindictive person.' Harsh when she had to be, but never wantonly unkind.

'And circumstance, if not the relatively short time I've been gone, tends to precipitate change,' he says with a wry, humourless little smile. Just a quirk of his lips, nothing of it reaching his eyes. 'But I like to fancy that life has not been too unkind, after that fashion.' Scars and hair styled for convenience, but nothing too drastic.