[This time Lupa grins, although it's a bit grim.]

And when they discover that I don't sleep alone, and moreover that I wake up fighting when I am disturbed by someone who isn't Tribe, I'll have some apologies to make after they've recovered.

[Lupa shrugs.] And yet, revealing some things about me has helped you become less tense. I know well the desire to have the defense of knowledge against people I don't know, and can't trust yet.

[Then confusion.] ...How did I do what, exactly?