There's more he wants to say. She can see it in the aborted way he moves his arms before he course-corrects. She wants to ask, but if he doesn't want to talk about it, then she'd just be prying at a scab, wouldn't she? She doesn't want to do that.

Still. It is good to talk to people.

Regan hesitates, then says, "You used to not, right? Talk to people. Saoirse said, when she first met you, you were... distant? At first I thought you were shy, but she said you were lonely." She smiles a bit ruefully. "She's good at seeing stuff like that." Even when you don't want her to.