[He doesn't say anything for a good while; he just tries to get his emotions back under control, already chastising himself for letting as much through as he has, and he hasn't managed it by the time he finds something to say.

Almost. But not entirely.]

I don't fault you for it. You shouldn't be expected to handle all of that.

[If he can't regulate his own emotions he's certainly not going to ask anyone else to; they were pretty damn unregulated when he'd first brought Schwann back, surely, but since then... Since then it's been easier to dismiss them altogether, to discard them as meaningless, to just let things lie as they are without trying to process them.

He's out of practice by now, really.]

You certainly don't need to start concerning yourself with it now. I'll manage. You know I always do.