[he looked down at her a little defiantly at first, but that soon faded and he gave a low chuckle] okay, you're right... Talking like that isn't going to help anything, is it?

[plus he could tell she was trying to make him feel better and he didn't want to be a neusance or bring her down when she was being so nice. He tried to think of something else to talk about]

So...we're going to gun frontier, right? That should be fun