[she still looks extremely apologetic about this, but calmer, a little, when he laughs and settles again. there's a sympathetic little smile of her own because she kind of gets it. it's a lot of overwhelming feelings all at once, and not everyone can process them so quickly.]

But being a smoothie probably helps. [a little joke.] It's the least I could do. I...walked past earlier when I checked here, but you were so focused on waiting I kinda figured you'd be here for a while. [so. little treat for ichiban. but she mulls over his original statement then.]

...maybe it is a little messed up to feel happy that this happened to him, but at the same time I think I get where you're coming from. It's been hard on both of you. When I last spoke with him, he...was kind of doing a little better, but more in the "held together with cheap glue" sense than the "will scatter with the wind" sense.