[ Don't be so suspicious! She's already told him she's new too, goodness. She's aware of him observing her but she doesn't mind it, certain most people here are all doing that exact thing. She's been doing her fair share of observations herself. Half the reason she's as exhausted as she is, the effects of the Ingress arrival still lingering in her system, on the backburner as she'd shoved them away.

With his... teasing? She's sure he's teasing, she can't help the tired way she smiles. ]

Fishing for justification? I might be, at the rate they've been going at it.

[ That turn of his words is obvious and her smile softens with it, listening to him closely as she watches him from her knees. Sometimes "real" family isn't all its cracked up to be and you have to make your own. She gets the impression he may have done so even unintentionally. ]

I'm glad you have some who are close to you here, then. [ No one deserved to be this far from home alone. ] You certainly don't seem like a troublemaker to me. Shall I write them all a prescription for 300mg of patience to be taken daily?