They nodded at each other across the distance and that was sufficient.
Then he heard her.
Ileana came out of the main building at a pace that was not her usual unhurried movement but something faster, and when she came through the door and saw him standing in the courtyard the expression on her face was the unguarded version she only had in the first moment after confirming something she had been waiting to confirm.
She crossed the courtyard and he barely had time to open his arms before she was in them, her arms around his neck and her body against his with the force of someone who had been waiting fourteen days and was not interested in being measured about it.
He held her and she held him and for a moment neither of them said anything.
