"So don't take this the wrong way, but that definitely sounds about par for the course. It's pretty much what I expected after our talk so far." She wasn't judging. Not at all, but somehow his sketchiness on the details had hinted that it was some sort of world-shattering thing, whatever it was.

A grunt and she felt the grind inside of her while she looked him over.

"You're under a crapload of pressure all the time, aren't you?" she was looking right at him. If he was trying to get closure, she could try and help him get that closure. And that felt like the sort of thing he really hadn't addressed at all in a while.