...this is true! [she smiles] There are certain crafts that are quite meaningful when they are given as gifts in my homeland. Perhaps I will make one of those.
[i don't know what you mean by not eating is going to catch up with him BUT... flayn will have been keeping an eye on where he went after the trial, so when it happens, she sees it.
and then reaches out to try and catch him by the arm, concerned.]
[honestly it probably means that yeah his balance is getting unsteady at some point especially now that he has nothing to focus on, because wow is he light-headed.
[better than nothing - she'll haul him the rest of the way to the kitchen, then]
I apologize - I cannot offer you much variety, but there are a few things I have learned to prepare without much issue. So, what sounds better to you: white rice, fried rice, soba noodles, or pancakes?
[she nods and gets to work - time to get a pot, fill it with water, put it on the stove, light the stove, go haul a bag of rice out of the pantry...]
...you do not have to talk about it if you do not wish to... [she knows they're not exactly close enough for him to confide in her or anything.] But for what it is worth... I am sorry about how today turned out.
If this is anything like past experience, we're doomed to never know what happened unless someone confesses, which probably won't happen until the last weeks, if ever.
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