She might have mentioned that her ability to go on functioning didn't rely on his opinion of her taste, but everything else was far more important than useless quips. He laid down and she stayed right where she was, listening from beginning to end without any interruption. In fact her expression hardly shifted even during some of the parts where a greater reaction would have made sense. Kaine listened as much as she watched the way that he told her this very long, thorough tale.

"Mm …" She did owe him something, didn't she? Except the last thing on her mind was returning the favor. "It's normal for friends to comfort each other, isn't it?" She wasn't asking it in a way that required him to explain, it was for confirmation and nothing else.