Kim doesn't answer much immediately or even eventually as she metaphorically bites her tongue about the pounding. Still, it's not even halfway to the goal when any hint of tension has been thoroughly pounded out of her, and it's all nice and smooth, metaphorically. If it were a more busy time, the noise being made might get something said, but now it would require somebody available to say something.<br/><br/>Even the front is currently occupied with customers, or perhaps 'customers,' and keeping things ready for the first expected influx of real business.