[The smile fades from her face at his question. She'd been hoping he would be groggy enough to not ask her, but apparently that's not the case.]
It is a bit of a story, you should get settled in first.
[She can't just lie to his face and say that everything is fine. It's not, even if she has adjusted to the idea now. Zelda knows that it's going to be a lot though, so she doesn't want to push it all on him before he's had a chance to wake up. She heads into the kitchen to get him a glass of water as requested.]
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It is a bit of a story, you should get settled in first.
[She can't just lie to his face and say that everything is fine. It's not, even if she has adjusted to the idea now. Zelda knows that it's going to be a lot though, so she doesn't want to push it all on him before he's had a chance to wake up. She heads into the kitchen to get him a glass of water as requested.]