"I'm..." Fine, he was going to say; I'm fine. The words were on his tongue before the rest of his head had caught up to them, and made him hesitate.
It was the second time she'd asked since they'd gotten out of the car, see. Will caught Clio's eye, felt the gentle squeeze of her hand in his, and he knew in a flash of chagrin that he'd not been hiding it as well as he'd thought.
He released his breath in a long puff, which somehow did little to loosen the tight feeling in his ribcage. "It's... this is the farthest I've been from them all since..." His stomach clenched around the end of that sentence and refused to relinquish it. "I'm being dumb, that's all. It's two nights, not like anything's gonna... not in that time."