When Alex spots Danny walking by with his hands full and clearly scouting for a place to sit, he turns his head to ask the table's owner if there's room at the table for one more tired kid, only to realize that at some point when Alex had been busy dealing with his last customer, the parent in question had apparently chosen to leave the table entirely. Which.

Alex supposes means he's he's been doing a decent job of holding down the fort on his own? Or something? What even is the appropriate social cue for this sort of thing, he'd really like to know.

Still, he's heard more than once that's it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission, and anyway the parent isn't even around for him to ask so Alex shrugs (regrets it immediately when it pulls at burned skin across his back but grits his teeth through the flair of pain) and calls over to Danny, gesturing helpfully at the empty chair next to him.