As much as he wanted to be able to comfort her, he did understand. It was a complicated business.
"Abi, wait-" he said, suddenly standing, and then quite deliberately stopping himself from moving toward her in case it freaked her out. "Sorry. It's just- in case you're gone in morning..." he tried to find the right words, and probably looked like a lost little boy for a moment. "Um- can you just- write it down? What you called it... what I was meant to be taking," he requested, feeling oddly small about it.