[Lance appreciates that she avoids the empathy bond, since he's not at all up for that right now. So he tries to focus on taking some sense of reassurance from both the gesture and her words, but at the moment that's really hard to do.
He does manage a weak attempt at a smile, briefly looking at her when he does so, but then returns to just kind of staring distantly at the floor.]
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He does manage a weak attempt at a smile, briefly looking at her when he does so, but then returns to just kind of staring distantly at the floor.]