As the apology rung in her mind, she didn’t quite as quickly process everything else he had said. Letting her hand off her eyes, though her lids remained closed, she took more care in reaching a standing position, taking her time with the movement as opposed to her previously hasty attempt. Once standing, she waved off the apology, “no, no, it’s I who should be sorry. I should have spoken up more loudly, else none of this would have-....’grotesquely disfigured!?’” She exclaimed, the phrase finally reaching her conscious mind. Her eyes shot open and looked him up and down once again. Her brows were pulled in tight as she noticed the man hunched over in his cloak again. That did not match at all what she had just seen. “You....no, I don’t...” she hesitated in her words, unsure of how to continue. She knew what she saw, but somehow his speaking about a disease so matter-of-factly made her hesitate. That’s not something one would ever joke about unless experiencing it. Perhaps he had been inflicted by something, but there was no way on this green earth that it affected his body. Yet his current stature seemed to speak differently.<br/><br/>“I.....apologize again.” She eventually settled on that and bowed her head. One bucket had tipped over and spilled all its contents, but one still was more than half full. Avoiding eye contact, she offered, “if you’ll give me a moment, I will go fetch a mop and clean up the mess I had made. You may continue your bath after I am finished, or if you would like to use the privacy screen, you may continue now and I will make it as if I am not here, and your room will be clean again before you are finished. Or, you may finish your bath, and you can come and get me from my room across the way, and I will clean everything up after.” She didn’t buy his story, but it was no place for her to argue. Her job was not to figure out her tenants. They were not treasures to be unlocked nor mysteries to be solved. Though this man was most definitely a mystery. Nevertheless, her mind continued to wonder....”I leave the decision up to you how I shall clean this.” She spoke, a little distantly in her tone.