"There's another system?" Tana asks, more teasing than anything else.

"I know you're joking, because if you're not I genuinely pity Rii," Anders says, teasing right back. 

He starts organising firstly by putting things in the same category together.

"Rii's better at the organisation thing than I am," Tana admits. "We balance each other out."

"The best partnerships always are. Karl-" Head down, move things around, block out that thought. "Hawke and Merrill are like that. Hawke is brash and implusive and Merrill...well, she's sweet. Odd, but sweet."

"I guess it's about finding someone to balance out your neuroses. Hard task. But worth it."

"I seem to always fall into groups like that. The Wardens, Hawke and Friends, you lot."

"Yeah. We're a bundle of neuroses. You know we're nicknamed 'Circe's Insane Asylum'?"

Surprised laugh! "Well, I guess you did need a doctor, though perhaps I'm not the right kind!"

"Oh. But didn't you know? All the best people are completely insane."

"Demonstrably true."

One shelf done.

"Right back at you," Tana says - and, as she had suggested, she gets distracted disassembling a device.

While she does that, Anders organises the rest of the shelves. He gets started on some unfamiliar devices, trying to keep certain piles together while making everything neater.

Tana reemerges from her distraction, apologises profusely, and goes back to trying to help.

“No, don’t be sorry. It’s rather calming. I just hope everything’s order makes sense to you?”

"Yeah," she says with a nod. "Thanks for this."

"Whatever I can do to help. And thank you. For the distraction."

"You're welcome here any time you need one. I know what it's like to get stuck in your own head."

“Sometimes it’s the last place you want to be stuck.”

Tana reaches over and squeezes his shoulder. "We know that more than most. There's a lot of shit out there."

“Yeah, that’s evident enough. I can’t believe the things Circe has been through.”

"I'm impressed she's already told you any of that. She doesn't speak much about that."

"I think, in her own way, she was trying to relate to me. It helped."

"Well. I'm glad it helped in whatever way it did. And perhaps, some, it helped her in turn."

"It's a comfort to know that there is someone who has had it worse than you, definitely."

"Pretty sure there's literally a word for that, but I can't remember what it is."