Well, rest assured, what's 'just' for her is most definitely heavenly for him! He means it! If you can maccify a paid mortgage, this is how it'd taste.
And, yeah, he's read to filth. Annette of the botany aisle (she seems to loiter there pretty frequently) may think him in a flow state of sorts, but in truth, he's very stressed, exceedingly cooked, and is a bundle of carbon. In short, instead of a flow state, he's the immeasurably less chill state of compression, and unfortunately, he's not the diamonds to show for it and a very stiff back. "Yeah. You know." He almost snorts. Blinders. Grace mimics her idly, rotating 'open' with his wrist, and tilts his bowl in his other hand. "Just, there's so much happening right now. If we're going to start asking the real questions, then I've gotta warn you, I couldn't even tell you where the zoning out begins." And he won't go further. Unless she asks. In truth, Grace, now properly standing, is unfathomably fascinated in his save-humanity-from-the-sixth-extinction-event research, but something tells him that talking of the fast expiring sun would make a very poor 'thanks' to the woman who fed you. "So, just another Friday night with...was it Poe you guys are reading in book club these days? Should I be worried?" Is everything about death these days?!