"Hey, hey, it's okay." All of a sudden it feels like he's the one trying to calm her. It would be funny if it weren't so awful. "We can fix this. I know we can.

"Can I tell you a secret?" He really shouldn't, especially not in the middle of a public space, but everyone seems too busy to pay attention, and anyway, everyone here already knows about other worlds. That makes it less wrong, probably.