Louis often reaches for how he was raised when in doubt, and that is the role of gentleman. He's seen his mother smooth over tensions at dinner with a carefully perfected wave of her hand and a few well-chosen words.

"So I heard. Mr. Fraser lamented he was not able to give you full military honors." In the event of her death. Because she died. She was buried. And now she's alive again. Louis is seized with the urge to go check her grave, but he refrains from voicing it. It would be unseemly to do, and he would likely be barred.

"You're quite famous now around town. How'd you manage the trick of comin' back?" he asks carefully.