[Is the best explanation he has. He just wasn't ready to go back to his room and the quiet and solitude of it.
There's something plainly grateful on his face at what Maes asks next.]
Both, actually. For my own sanity.
[He laughs and sinks further into his chair.] I got engaged. [He announces because honestly that's at least superficially the simplest thing to explain.]
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[Is the best explanation he has. He just wasn't ready to go back to his room and the quiet and solitude of it.
There's something plainly grateful on his face at what Maes asks next.]
Both, actually. For my own sanity.
[He laughs and sinks further into his chair.] I got engaged. [He announces because honestly that's at least superficially the simplest thing to explain.]