"What about you? What had you in Rome?" He asks, sounding completely curious about the other, and now that he's settling down from his initial panic he seems genuinely friendly.

He nods to the idea of the other not knowing if someone might be close to a breakthrough. "It would be nice if that was the case, even if it would make my suddenly being here... more of a waste of time than anything." He takes a moment to fuss with his hair as he speaks, trying to get the curls back into their places, and almost succeeding, but he will need hair product to keep them there at this rate.