Sidon had been beginning to connect those dots that Link was worried about, but Link's reason for not having time to stay and talk about them blindsided him and dragged his mind completely off track.
He blinked in confusion at his friend for a moment, trying to decide if there were any exaggeration or blatant falsehood in that statement, but he saw and heard none, and between the assurance that Link would not, as he put it, 'throw baggage' at him and then leave him to flounder about with it on his own, and the look of suffering- and that was a bit exaggerated -at his reasons, Sidon willingly set those dots and the picture they formed aside and chose to be amused at his friend's plight instead.
But he wasn't going to show how amused he was. That would be rude. Link had asked for pity, laughing at him was just the opposite.
It took him a few breaths to get his face to cooperate with hiding that amusement. "A position I do not envy you for, and have so far been able to escape."