He didn't know what to expect but it certainly wasn't this. Looking around with muted awe, the expression showing at all is more than enough to say that he's impressed. He cranes his head this way and that to gawk at all the fine details of everything. The actual people there are a surprise. He knows in the back of his mind they aren't real, but he waves to the ones that greet them anyway out of habit.

"This is..." A lot of things, "So much. It's incredible. You made all this?" The unsaid portion hangs as 'for me', but the look in his eyes visible behind his mask says it all. He's utterly struck by the whole thing. What a grand gesture it all is. His hand tightens on Emet's as he looks back up at him, little else to say for his astonishment.

It's like walking into another world. The shades there make it feel as though he belongs, too. A nice feeling. Belonging somewhere. He remembers when he first felt the notion when he was teaching, and then with Dimitri.

He can't help himself from wanting to look everywhere all at once, his head still swiveling to catch every little detail.

"I'm ah. I'm speechless."