[Dan grins, scooching at his workbench to leave a space for Branch to get on the table with enough space to have a wide personal bubble and an easy route to get off the table or hide behind the mannequin if he gets spooked. Just because Branch trusts him enough to ask for a small favor doesn’t mean that he trusts Dan not to hurt him, and Dan wants to be conscientious of leaving escape paths open and avoiding sudden movements.]

I can, indeed, do hems, buttons and buttonholes. [Dan pulls his tailoring glasses out of his pocket; on most people they’d be reading glasses, but Dan’s wasted on that, and so he really just uses them for detail work. Branch is small enough that just about anything is detail work.]

Show me what you want taken care of. But more importantly, which tools, exactly, are you in need of? Because we can try and make that happen too.

[Secretly, Dan would love a little stitch-and-bitch club to start up.]