[He watches curiously as she gets up, but when he sees her tap the mug, his face breaks into a big smile. Carmen, you are a wonderful person.

He makes his move, then taps his overturned mug.]

It's about Mio. It... sort of occurred to me that I'm her only caretaker for as long as we're here, and that's turning out to be longer than I expected. [And you're the only grown woman he trusts who isn't a wide-eyed ex-pony. And thus far, he doesn't think he knows anyone who has a teenage daughter/sister/ward, so he's forced to turn to someone who actually was once a teenage girl.] I don't really know what I'm doing.