"I wouldn't mind talking." It's one of the reasons he's here, isn't it? Though that vein of conversation wasn't likely, remotely, anywhere near what Wylan had in mind.

But he had promised this boy--this wonderous boy that still somehow was giving him the time of day after the early messes he'd stumbled into--honesty. He was trying to keep those promises. "We should...We need to talk about the asylum. The Mares." He hates it, breaking this little bit of peace in a matter of seconds, but he was doing it anyway. "I kissed Kaz."

Might as well get that one out of the way from the get-go. Jesper's just holding his breath for the fallout.