[lets him do that, just watching, mostly. frowning slightly because something about the calmness is just registering in a way that's familiar but not.]

In the house, you were a lot more talkative about things. Probably because it seemed to certain how it would go? Because of the miasma? Is it just that there's more confidence in how this situation will be handled?

I'm not really any good at the "still waters run deep" type...