[He BASKS in that reassurance, and a languid sort of fondness comes back, like a cat nudging a petting hand.]

You did. I- This is incredible. You feel this all the time?

[The itch, though? It doesn't gentle. It goes down deep, deep, into a certain nothing of Jesper's own.

Though oddly, the more he's doing THIS, the more it diffuses a little.]