"I'll eat with you." It wasn't that he didn't appreciate the choice, but he just preferred the choice that would make things easier for him. There was still an overlying fear in him. Not only did he find that it was the proper choice to make, but it was quite quiet when he was on his own. Charles was accustomed to people, even if he wasn't interacting with them, but he had once promised Erik he would stay out of his mind and had kept it.