Oh dear. This was not what she meant. "It's not your fault!" She promises him. "I'm, I'm sorry, I didn't mean- we aren't-" this is all horribly embarrassing. "I'm just. Explaining. You didn't know." She laughs, a little hysterically. "I didn't know."

"I didn't want to hurt you."

That gets him a small, fond smile. "I didn't think you did."

"Okay. Good."

She makes the mistake of looking at him a little too directly, and gulps as her brain provides the image of him leaning over the girl for earlier, with his head close to hers, and- "I'm sorry," she says in a rush. "I probably shouldn't have said anything, I... I didn't want to upset you or anything."

"I'm all right, this is not the most emotionally demanding thing that has happened today."

Well, now Emmalina feels like a bug. A tiny, tiny bug. "I'm sorry I made your day worse," she says in a small voice. "Is there anything I can do to help?"

"No, it's, that's not what I meant. It's okay."

Emmalina knows she's bad at talking to people, but this is bad even for her. She leans on her princess training to straighten up and smile tentatively at Jann. "Well. So... I think we're both in something of a odd spot in our lives, at the moment. A little. I don't know that we should continue this right now. But. Maybe we could... Talk later?"

"Sure, good idea. Is there anything you need now?"

"Your cousin was nice enough to show me the library, it'll be a happy distraction for a while. But thank you for checking."

"Okay. Do let me know if you need something."