I understand at least... I don't mind talking about just really anything if it helps.

(Though it might help more if they both were able to focus more on other things. The heat can ease anyway more over time and he knows it; he's not the best at idle chatter and he knows it yet he has a feeling with how foreign it is on them both that they'll have a lot of anxieties about this.

With him working himself to the ground it's a wonder he hasn't gotten more hurt or had worse done to his body outside of what scars he obtained.

Perhaps it's why he's trying to distract one another, from these thoughts, their anxieties, just by doing whatever he can even as his eyes close once more. Maybe it might help if he does that... making the thoughts focus elsewhere as he tries to doze while they speak to one another.)

Maybe... hmm... whenever I was traveling, I had to learn how to cook beyond simple meals for instance. I didn't take the opportunity to ask Adelinde if she could have taught me more so for a fair part of it I was learning through my own stubbornness; she would have been horrified at some of my attempts not looking right.

(Maybe some stories from his travels could help them...?

He hopes so anyway.)