Alric paused a moment, then chuckled lightly and scratched the back of his head.

"Ah... at any rate, apologies, again, for the... inauspicious beginnings. Hopefully we'll be rectifying that. Have a good night, Tiamaris."

He smiled a touch more jovially, nodded in almost courtly manner, and moved to step out. Among other things, whether Tiamaris needed to at the moment or not, Alric needed to get his bearings a bit. Lending a hand with the cleaning up downstairs might help, there. Doing something helpful and physical in the way of manual labor or community service could be excellent internal atonement for bollocksing up a social situation.