[That makes two of them on the prepardness front. She'd know better than anyone – as much as he's trying to steel himself and look calm, he's nervous, too. Brimming under the surface, behind the thin line his mouth is set into.]

There's not much point in dragging this out more publicly than it has to be. Let me in, and we can try to talk this out like adults.

[His tone is even, serious.]