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She was startled by his voice, not expecting anyone to really talk to her in general. But Rowan found that she was simply lacked the energy to be startled outwardly. Looking up to Leon's face, she tried her best to put on a good face. No reason for anyone else to know how she was doing.
"I could probably use it, yeah." It wasn't her fault that she could only really get it when she was with Keegan. She had tried and tried and it only left her with nightmares and feeling more tired than before she had slept.
"I'm..." she was starting to say the usual, that she was fine but worried but sure that everything would be fine and yadda yadda, but the slight tone of concern in her voice made her stop that before it started.
"I'm ...not really doing well." The tone she used was without self-pity, more a statement of fact than anything else. Swallowing hard for a moment, Rowan took a breath and steadied herself. "But how are you doing?" There was a note of concern in her voice as well. More than a note. Rowan was quite capable of switching from her own issues to concern for someone else in a heartbeat. Even for the swiftness of the change, it was both genuine and a deliberate attempt to not be the center of the conversation.
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