( Oh, poorly done, Herian. She winces at herself a little, and clenches her jaw in an expression of frustration at herself as she takes a step backwards, one arm holding the opposite arm. )

My apologies. I am... still more inelegant than usual with my conversation. No thanks are necessary, I promise you, and you owe me no explanations, I simply— I don’t think I fully grasped the complexity of matters until I beheld them. I do not think I do so, now.