[Ah, that's...Linhardt look away after Hubert says that, and winds up shaking his head.]

...I understand. It did hurt just a touch, but I also felt that I...greatly overstepped, at the time. It sounds like such a gesture only managed to confuse the both of us.

[Hubert's apology is certainly noted, but it's those last words that make Linhardt pause a bit. Eyes a little wide, flush growing on his cheeks as it...kind of hits, and--well, excuse him while he shuts his eyes and just. Takes a moment.]

...Did you by any chance...well, like it, at all?

[LINHARDT]