[ The smile does it, and she slides up onto the counter - difficult, far too difficult, guess who'd forgotten just how weak her human body had been. She grits her teeth to push past the sharp sting that pushing herself up there provoked, and shakes her head lightly before looking back at him. ]

It's...my world stuff, hard to explain.

[ Hard to explain, but damn she's sick of lying to him. It's getting harder, and it sure as hell won't protect him to not know what's going on. She sighs quietly, then just shrugs. ]

Brother of mine hasn't done too well in all of this- whatever you want to call it. Madness.