His eyebrow rises just a tick, because yeah, he can guess this isn't all about him, but the part that is about him isn't what he expected, either. She's always doing that, throwing just a little him off balance. Asking things of him that used to be normal, before normal got turned on its head. It's not like he didn't know she needed somebody. He can read body language across the village about as well as across a room. He just didn't think she needed him.

"Yeah." He nods, dropping his eyes with an apologetic grimace. "Gotta work on that."

"You wanna be mad at me, or them?" Like either one would be fine.