For Bruce this is only slimly familiar - he isn't a demonstrative person, with verbal or physical affection. This is something reserved for when he doesn't have to pick through every motion with such deliberation, that he wants but can't often reconcile. Vanessza may have learned by now that if she intimates he stay he will, but he doesn't presume, and certainly doesn't ask. The austere women he finds himself so often captured by still tend to bow without questioning to his closed-off whims.

But it's not like he's going to up and leave. He's practically cornered, with Seoraj, who doesn't seem like he'd mind anyway. So why the hell not.

Heartbeats after he's settled, he's asleep.