Ah! As if Sparkle would ever stop flattering Leto! Some of his favourite memories with him came directly after some shameless flattery, after all.

"I've been... worse. I have definitely been worse," he decided, his smile going a little crooked for a moment. "Atton's taken off somewhere, and I lost a friend a few weeks back, but besides that I can't really complain. You know you missed one of those weekends where people's clothes were wandering off? The island has some great views on weekends like those."

There had been some honesty in there. DIVERT, DIVERT.