He can feel her distress and that it's for him now, and that prompts him to push a fond kind of incredulity through the drift.

Really, Gipsy, I'm okay.

He's not all that bothered by her not giving him any functionality, this visit is mainly social in nature. He knows how lonely she feels, and he can relate a little. Poor girl.

I'll have a word with them. I don't know if there's anything they can do to lessen the pain, but they need to know it's upsetting you.