If nothing else it was easier to accept as a simple personality trait rather than another symptom of his current frame of mind. Sometimes people were just serious, after all! And there wasn't anything wrong with that. She watched him in that moment but saw nothing wrong with that exhaustion, it could mean any number of things and as long as he didn't look to be in pain she would refrain from smothering him with her concern.

"How long has it been since you spent time with your ka-tet," She still couldn't say that word without her tongue forming oddly around it but it didn't stop her any, "as their friend and not their dinh?" She had warned him that this would be a little harder, so no complaining!