[He decides to not react to the attempt at levity. Alexei doesn't feel particularly tense - he got all that out about an hour ago - but he's not going to just treat this like something he can just gloss over either.]
Given how many people you know I expect it'd be more of a surprise to me if you didn't.
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Given how many people you know I expect it'd be more of a surprise to me if you didn't.
[But. Sigh.]
Florian. It's Florian.