[ The smile is all in his eyes, but the truth is that the fond edge of it reaches his lips this time, as Ray all but bounces off the ground in his agreement. It's subtle, but then it always is, and he's always pleased when they actually understand each other; especially since sometimes it seems to him he should have a dictionary of phrases on hand in order to school Ray anew on the basics. Then, sometimes, he'll come out and understand a word like 'obfuscate', and Fraser will question if that time when he's misconstrued some basic expression really happened at all, and whether it was just some effort to mess with him on a deeper level. ]

Case in point. [ He says, about the bouncing. ]

So you see, Ray, the success of our partnership is no mere accident. We were - in effect - made for each other.

[ Honestly it's still questionable whether he knows where this conversation has gone since it started. ]