[He slips out the door, in his unobtrusive way, and he holds it briefly open behind him. Doesn't wait for her to walk past him, just...catches it so it doesn't close in her face.

It seems more of a gesture between equals, for them, he thinks. Given the way she held it for him, at least. The way she looked at his face.

(it was heartland, he knows it but he doesn't want to think about it)

He takes a deep breath, once he's outside. At least the air is clean in Heartland City.]