He reaches out for their hands immediately, holding them in his own, palms up... But he glances past them at the pins sticking awkwardly out of Phalanx's arm, giving them a pitying look.

"I'd wondered..." He drops one of their hands to reach out again, smiling as he plucks a couple of pins out without the slightest hesitation. "But you were very invested in keeping these pins..."

He'll put the pins somewhere else, poking them through the outside of one of Phalanx's pockets, facing downward so that the point will be difficult to accidentally catch themselves on.