[ Mingjue offers an almost smile, something small but kind and real. His grip trails away from Xichen's arms, but he also doesn't move very far away, if it all.

Touch was weird here, as was everything else. He didn't want to... assume things he shouldn't. Because this whole place was making him weird, too. Perhaps it was all a dream. That'd make more sense. ]

I am very glad to see you... though, I've no idea where to begin. Everything here is- Well. Everything is strange to me. When they fed me the explanation, I didn't believe them, but after being amongst the people, I can't see any other explanation.

[ Except that it's a dream, but he's not going to tell dream!Xichen that. ]

They did mention that... we could change... [ He almost says that Xichen seems exactly the same, but that's not true. Though, Mingjue's pretty sure it's not this place that has caused those changes in him. ]