[ Jayden's question doesn't throw her so off guard that she doesn't know how to react and there isn't any Fey wine in her yet to slow her response time down. She's grateful for the mask that covers half of her face, but her gaze follows up to the illusion of the night sky above them all the same. Her voice is measured and light like nothing is the matter as she kind of side steps the question. ]

I thought some alone time might be nice. [ She realizes a beat later what she had said about not wanting to be so alone with her thoughts that she had almost avoided the Listening Tree all together. ] Obviously not that much alone time - but you know what I mean.

[ There's no need to fill Jayden in on the troubles that had been plaguing the loft. ]

Maybe if you weren't being a snail racing star we could have gone together.