[That first comment earns Ciri a dry look, but otherwise Avery chooses to ignore it and answer the question instead.]

As best I can. Don't have much choice now, do I?

[Also, yeah, it definitely takes a second for Ciri's request to click in her head, but once it does, Avery reaches out, slow and uncharacteristically shy, to tentatively take the offered hand.]

You should eat something. [Er, whoops, that just sort of bubbled out unbidden, thanks to nervous energy, but now it's there so she presses on.] And have a bath, a change, and a rest. You're like to feel a bit more human after.