Vax'ildan got the sense that Regina didn't show her cards until she was good and ready. People with family troubles tended to go one way or the other - either they were eager to tell you about every irritation their family had caused them, or they would rather not be forced to explain. The way she doubled her words back on themselves without stopping to explain, he thought she might be more of the latter.

"Say, I don't know anything about farming," he changed the subject, "but I've got two hands and loads of time for them to be idle just now. I could at least be a dogsbody." Until he got bored of it, anyway. He didn't do well when he was bored. It just so happened that this was all new to him, for one, and that the options for entertainment were limited, for another.