I think the pleasure of your company would more than outweigh any supposed dead-weightedness.

[Which, as far as she's concerned, exists only in his mind, but to convince him of that.... is a losing battle that she still keeps valiantly fighting.]

... Lahabrea again, huh? What is he doing down there in Pandaemonium? You'd think his droning report today could have included this incident since I was not here for it, but instead I have to learn of it second-hand.

[Which she does not like. Some members of the Convocation occasionally have a bit of a jealous regard for their own specialty, but playing their cards so close to their chest is problematic.]

If he cannot be counted on to contain the beasts within, it will be torublesome. Epecially if Emet of all people had to help. They wouldn't call him for that unless it was really serious.

[So she can believe he was shaken, not that he'd admit to it.]

I didn't have time to talk to him before the meeting, or else he might have mentioned it. Or not.

Will he ever stop feeling like he has to play catch-up with me?