Oh, he likes that. Even as he comes down off the high that lifting from Dionysus always leaves him with, he feels elated - but it's nothing to do with anything otherworldly. It's just Jon. Alejandro laughs and kisses him, pulls him closer so that the fair-haired man is atop him, and feels like he could cry at the simple pleasure of feeling his weight on him again, feeling him so alive and really, truly here.

"I love you," he says, breathless. "I love you so much. Gods, I've been half-alive without you. Hephaestion. Jon."