It's been nothing that a few hugs cannot stave off by the end of the day...

[ Just as last time, and the time before than, her hand finds the top of his head for a short series of strokes and pats over his rounded form. ] Analysis does take time... and the primary sample of spider-ooze I've been working with had been collected five months ago.

[ So. She's been feeling this for a very long time. ]