It's, it's fine. [With an edge of irritated something in his words, Giles waves Helios' words away as though they're an irritating sort of bird.

It's not, but Giles wants it to be fine. Ginia's here, now. She's here and he scoured the bookshop and there was no blue book there with that cover waiting for her. So she's probably going to stay here.

He just...has to keep telling himself that.]

Knowing this crowd, um, they might have paid extra for some sort of disaster. Mobs, um, generally seem to like that sort of thing. Myself...well, um, I was impressed.

[He manages a smile, and it's mostly genuine.] You've gotten better.

[Helios probably had some time to practice, while Giles was away from Luceti, and that thought drives a new spike into his heart.]