The rabbits are predictably beginning to settle in Nina's presence, their noses gently twitching and their ears relaxed. Lan Wangji notes this with a little invisible fondness for all three parties. Claudius brewing something with several herbs sounds perfectly everyday to him, but people do arrive here from a wide variety of unusual contexts, so he nods. "I had lost track of my husband and my students when I arrived." The rest of that, the and therefore I was panicking completely beneath my moderately calm exterior, seems too obvious to bother vocalizing.