She smiled again, relief filling her up like bubbles. "Thank you," she said with plainly earnest gratitude. "I'm not the best at talking to people a lot of the time like I said, and- and even if I do all the talking anyway until I call for your help anyway, just knowing I have you willing to help me is... it means a lot, a whole really big amounts of a lot."

"You're really good at being reassuring," she added with a tip of her head and a shy little laugh at complimenting somebody like that, the way she sometimes wished for, herself. "It's a really nice quality you ought to be proud of."