"Well enough," she replies with a sigh. Her mood is tempered by a number of things that aren't his fault. Once she arranges the flowers in the vase, she brings them over to the table and places it on top before sitting down across from him.

"How are you feeling?" she asks as she starts to pour both of them tea. "Were there any ill side-effects from... the death?" Small talk will probably be her own sort of shield before she can finally get down to the business of why she's asked him here today.