Dan doesn't usually find himself in places like this-- the bar factor, of course, and the sheer amount of people with loud thoughts. But just as he'd suspected, and happily so, once he's all tucked in against Marcus, the other people are gentle background noise in his head.

It occurs to him that he can be upfront about it now, and so he is.

"They sound great," he says first, because they do, and it makes him remember that he had liked singing, before he really lost track of himself. "Hey, can you-- give me your hand, or something? Helps with the people noise. Helps with more than that, but I just want to be focused on you and the music."