[That last comment earns another weak but genuine laugh, and although he doesn't uncross his arms, they do loosen a little and he manages to drag his gaze back to Ian instead of the phones.]

You'd talked about working on a fix for the sleeping situation, so if that's still on your list of projects...

[He's too introverted for this 'around people 24/7' thing to work, and honestly if he got a little more sleep he'd probably be handling all of this a lot better.

But more seriously--]

I probably should talk about it, but there's no single 'it'. There's just a whole list of things and they're all tangled together and neither of us has all day for my emotional problems, so that'll have to wait.

[It's honest, even if it's also an evasion. At least he's not denying there's issues anymore, so that's something. Sort of.]