[He knows her body language well enough to recognise when she's anxious, but he doesn't comment, instead just doing the opposite and flopping back on the grass to sit, taking in the scenery like he finds the whole thing relaxing. (It would be moreso if Hayame relaxed, too, but... one thing at a time.) He looks up at the sky, clear to see through the canopy of the trees.]

Forests are still kind of a novelty for me, you know. Almyra doesn't really have them, so Fódlan was the first time I got to experience any.

[The sights, the smells, the animals and insects, how green it was, learning to climb a tree for the first time... As a student at the academy, it was all foreign to him.

Still, before he gets lost in reminiscing, he fixes his attention back up at Hayame.]

Enough about me rambling, anyway. I want to shut my big mouth and listen to you, for once.