Looking at the woman seriously and walking over, Valen touched her forehead and looked at her face. "You, you need to give me whatever task was important enough to draw me out from my books, and then you need rest. As much as I like seeing you being productive if you overwork yourself to the grave I'll drag your soul back just so I can spank it to remember to take breaks!" He was a bit stern, especially to a possible boss in the future and on a long run. Awkward as it might have been normally, his concern for her overrode little concerns like that.<br/><br/>"As for the work for a longer term? I am willing to -consider it seriously- but I need to know you wont get yourself killed in the meanwhile. Sheesh." He pat her cheek and smiled to her. "If you drop dead from exhaustion who will I come back to after missions?"<br/><br/>He felt worried about her but at the same time, Valen felt fairly sure the only way he'd get her to rest was to get someone else to help out here. "Maybe I could get the owl-fellow over to help." Playing abit on the words old fellow, he wondered if he'd mind helping out what with Koko worked to this point.