Katherine didn't notice Regina until she spoke, too lost in her own thoughts, and that disturbed her. Despite having been back, being human, for nearly two months, she was still at a great loss without her added abilities, abilities she had come to rely so much on. Somewhere in her mind she still felt she should have heard Regina approaching long before she even reached the kitchen.
She looked up slowly at her friend and shrugged slightly. "I've been better." And even such a simple statement could still be so very loaded. That could be taken a number of ways, for those who knew her well enough. And if anyone in Lawrence knew her well enough to pick up on the multitude of meanings behind a single statement, it was Regina.
"Elijah's being ridiculous." she said after another long moment of silence, her tone holding a little more bitterness than she'd have expected. "All pouty because I don't-- I won't stay at his house during all of this." Among other things. She'd told him she wasn't making it a situation where he would be forced to choose. But still, he'd shown who he would choose and it hurt. Maybe she couldn't understand it because she was blind to anything more of his siblings than the pure hatred, sheer arrogance that she could see in them, or maybe she just forgot what family was all about because she had been without for so very long. But to know that when push came to shove, she was second to them? It cut deep.