It unsettles Faolan a little. The idea that she could be in his head, without him wanting her to be. He might be somewhat grumpy a fair amount of the time -- alright, a lot of the time -- but it's his way of coping. His way of hiding from more complicated emotions that he would rather not deal with himself. Rather not face up to or admit to having. And it's unsettling that she should know them just by sitting across from him, when he spends so much time burying them away from the world, from even himself...

He doesn't want to ask what she felt that had led her to hug him. He's fairly certain that he already knows. And he's fairly certain that he doesn't want to talk about it. So when he speaks up, it's to ask, "So. You've been able to do this all your life, then?"