( Some people would nurse alcohol like Jingyi's presently nursing the broth, and he learns in the process, it's best he started with the broth. It takes him time to even get through the one bowl, and then he does pick up the hot chocolate again, taking a sip of the now cooler drink, but finding it just the right kind of overwhelming.

It stirs him out of his own head, enough that when Ryo's next back around he says, )

This is good.

( Not with surprise, just a statement of noting a for-him fact. Hot chocolate is, so far, good. )

So was the broth. Thank you...

( He sighs, canting his head to the side. )

What did you want to hear about, with the nonsense that went on?