"First thing I needed when I woke up here was a drink." A beat. "Well, medical attention, but after that a drink."

Waking up in a tube full of water with a hole in your side can drive a man to the bottom of a bottle, nevermind everything that came before. Tony leans his hip against his worktable, settled comfortably with the warmth of the forge against his back. "So, what'd you lose?"

There'd been that moment before, the moment he ignored out of courtesy- but it was, in fact, a moment. Something's missing for Dorian and knowing that might help solve the mystery of how their overlords keep managing to fuck with them.