[That hand on his chin might as well be strangling, with how much trouble it gives him in managing a reply. Even worse that he worries the medication might not hold out under all this pressure. His eyebrow twitches with a faint glow in his eye and a few veins bubbling up-- but it all receeds in the blink of an eye.]

I don't know.

[One of the reasons he hasn't tried. Although probably the least of them.]

It was mode important to be civil, and friendly.

[Hyde might try to put the moves on, but Robert wouldn't be about to try that...ever really, but at least not until reconciliation.]