Gladio pulled back from the poke a little, as if it had actually done anything against those rock hard muscles, and he chuckled.

"What can I say?" he said. "I'm a simple guy, you put some books together in a nice building, I'm pretty happy. But, yeah," his nod became a little more sincere as he looked around again, "this is pretty great. Tenebrae vibes. I've never been except for a quick stop-over on our way into Niflheim way, way back," and the less he thought about that slice of time, the better, "but I've seen pictures. It always looked a little too beautiful to be true."