[The sound of his frustration makes her hesitate a moment as something in her mind clicks. Something hasn't been quite right - not with him, but with her. As if the sympathy she should be feeling has been dulled all conversation - at first she didn't notice, too shocked by the disparity in the passage of time, but now that it's over with, she can see it, the result of practice in meditation on her own thoughts. All her worries so far have been about her.

Her brow furrows with worry and guilt. It's a little disconcerting, how impersonal the tiny screen was making this feel. Does this reflect badly on her as a person? She's always held some sympathy for distress, whether she showed it or not...why does his location relative to her matter to this subconscious part of her?

Katherine, of course, doesn't have the answer to this one. There's simply no precedent anywhere in Thedas to compare to this particular mode of communication. Even if eluvians worked the same way, and she wouldn't know if they did, they were at least full-length mirrors...

The best she can do is try to work through it. Keep talking and hope her mind gets the memo that this is a person in some form of pain, no matter how they're talking. She should be worried about him, not her own emotions. Firstly, he looks like he's just been through something stressful. She should be focusing on that.]

I'm sorry, it's a little hard to wrap my mind around. I don't mean to be callous. Um... Are you all right?