[Ryou is just cruising along, and happy to float in the elevator above Atem's long snake body. They can fit, he won't even contribute to the weight, and he can control his descent enough to accommodate the elevator movement, he's sure.]

...Ultimate Mechanic? I...I see.

[He doesn't know why, but something about what Atem had just told him kind of...makes him feel bad. Not the part about Hope's Peak, he'll file that away to ask about afterwards, but that he was taking Ryou to see someone who might possibly be able to outfit him with a prosthesis.]

S-so you're asking him to help me? That's very kind.

[Ryou smiles, but there's something odd behind it. Even he doesn't know why...but he feels very strange at the idea that Atem had gone through the trouble of finding someone who could fix him.

The elevator dings, and Ryou snaps out of his stupid--because it was really, really stupid to feel this way--thought process. Once the doors open, he's the first one out.]

You've always got good connections! And you're always helping me--

[His height above the floor begins to falter, so Ryou switches his full concentration to the task at hand, correcting his altitude.]