He'd expected to feel uncomfortable at best when she gripped him, but instead it felt... he didn't have a word for it. There was a tightness in his chest that should have been unpleasant, but instead it was the opposite.

Without meaning to, he squeezed her back, a reflexive reaction to that strangely comforting tightness around his heart.

Her question made him snort, and his lips curved in something that almost managed to be a wry smile. "I need it to stop snowing in my Goddamn quarters, but I doubt there's much you can do about that."