A chance was given, and then taken. It is better than to not have had a chance at all.

[ Xichen hesitates, then adds, ] I am in the garden car. If you wish.

[ He is not as his best, his eyes reddened almost all the color is to his face - against the bright orange of his train-assigned attire, he probably looks like he's about to fade away. But he's out and about and using words, and that's... something? ]