"Don't apologize," she said softly, pushing off from the door but making no attempt to get any closer to him. "I didn't mean to scare you, unless... " Unless it was something else entirely, like the duel or something he'd been thinking about but hadn't revealed to her, but she didn't elaborate.

"That was a panic attack. It's - completely normal. Everyone has them sometimes." Perhaps not everyone, but enough of them, and she wanted him to know that it wasn't really strange, least of all to her. "What can I do for you?"

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