Different but adjacent, considering that they're not exactly the normal sensory issues people get from crowds. (Soldat would probably love the lost in a crowd feeling, so long as no one bumped into them.)

"I realize it's not possible to get less impressed with them, but they can still get fucked," Ghost says, voice at a lower volume that qualifies as muttering. The expression on his face definitely makes it a mutter, but he turns to something more teasing afterwards. "You'll take my positive reinforcement and like it just like everyone else."

If they were sitting closer, there might have been a playful elbow shove there.