[ Zhongli offers a hand to Ajax then— preposterous really considering how much time they had spent in the last 48 hours with their fingers laced with one another. ]

Then allow me to protect you from that which might startle you. We do not have to be in the presence of humans for long. Just long enough to complete a business transaction.

[ Aka speak long enough with the innkeeper and shopkeepers to purchase their wares for the night. Though if Ajax has not spent much time around humans, perhaps even this process would be mysterious to him. ]