If Noctis weren't so tired and drained, he'd probably have pushed himself away from Nyx by now just to clear his head. He's really not used to this. Sure, Ignis fussed over him a lot, but it wasn't like this, soft and affectionate and...loving.

As it is, he stays right here in Nyx's arms and lets those soothing gestures calm him down a bit, taking a breath and letting it out. "I didn't even know fairies existed until I wandered into that field. Thought they were moogles or something at first. You must've felt it, right? Everything felt distant and unimportant except staying there and having fun. So they gave me a weird hat and I played with them for a while, just dumb shit like dancing and running around. Got tired, took a nap under a tree. ...Ardyn woke me up. He had the magic rope the fairies gave him, and I guess that and the hat were enchanted so I'd want him to chase me around and he'd want to catch me."

He pauses for a sip or two of tea, realizing how incredibly stupid this story sounds. "Turns out he can warp, too, and...honestly, it really was fun, warping around the forest just for its own sake. But uh, doing it tires me out faster than it does him, so he caught me. All he did was toss the rope like a lasso and it...did its thing by itself, but that was just wrapping around me normally."

His brow furrows as he remembers the next part - the first unexpected behavior out of the chancellor. "We were mid-warp when he did it, so I fell, and he...used some kind of shadow power to land first and catch me. He was...weirdly gentle about it. That was twice already that he easily had the opportunity to hurt me and didn't. Uh...that's where it starts getting..." Man, what word can he use here that doesn't sound either worse than it is or totally juvenile?

"...sexy. But it wasn't anything I didn't agree to." He pauses there with that preface, just to see if Nyx has anything to say yet.