Haha, well... I suppose it was mostly for nostalgia's sake, than any desire to breathe secondhand smoke again.

[Like how cigarette smoke of all things had done something to cure corruption, back in Trench. Like how just the proximity of someone familiar had helped smooth out the monstrous features.]

Again, I don't blame you. [I blame me.] You've no need to apologize. [Hakkai does. But, being Hakkai, he will just cycle through the guilt over and over before figuring out how to even start to apologize.]

[This hypocrite.]