"No, I'm fine," she lied, trying to get her silly reaction under control. And Lottie was perfectly aware that it was silly. She just couldn't quite help it.
"I'm fine, and I didn't get lost, not like that." It would never do for Ninkasi to feel bad about meandering while she spoke. Not when Lottie did it with such aplomb so often herself. "I'm a babbler, you know. World class. In fact, I think I may have actually stunned Enlil with my babbling the first time I met him and that's why he didn't squish me, which he totally should have given when I met him, and how ignorant I was about the things I was talking about and, you see? Doing it right now, aren't I? So that wasn't the problem at all. I just zigged when you zagged and got lost for a moment on something you said, but I'm all caught up now, so everything is fine. And Thoth is the reason you met Kray? How so?"
There. That should set things to rights. Satisfied to have put her motor mouth to good use, she then set about filling it with some of the food that was laid out in front of them.