[His answer is immediate, urgent, the emphasis put into it stopping him in their walk for a brief moment. He lifts his free hand, reaching out as though to stop her as well by grabbing her own... and then pauses halfway, seeming to think better of it as he allows it to fall back to his side. Keep a cool head, Sheik. You know well you won't do her any favors by getting worked up.]
... I can say with certainty that is not the case. [He adds after a breath, stepping off again.] You will wake, eventually, and they will all be exactly where you left them, none the wiser that you have experienced a "vacation" of sorts, as the tapirs put it. Please, do not fret. If such things were a possibility, do you believe I would be walking with you and the horses like this?
[If there's any situation where he would agree with her "wild animal" assessment, it would have to be the one she's imagining. He's just so far removed from normal people problems that he sucks at this, okay—]
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[His answer is immediate, urgent, the emphasis put into it stopping him in their walk for a brief moment. He lifts his free hand, reaching out as though to stop her as well by grabbing her own... and then pauses halfway, seeming to think better of it as he allows it to fall back to his side. Keep a cool head, Sheik. You know well you won't do her any favors by getting worked up.]
... I can say with certainty that is not the case. [He adds after a breath, stepping off again.] You will wake, eventually, and they will all be exactly where you left them, none the wiser that you have experienced a "vacation" of sorts, as the tapirs put it. Please, do not fret. If such things were a possibility, do you believe I would be walking with you and the horses like this?
[If there's any situation where he would agree with her "wild animal" assessment, it would have to be the one she's imagining. He's just so far removed from normal people problems that he sucks at this, okay—]