"I'm fine!" Perhaps she had said it a little too quickly, but it felt important to reassure Luke of that right away. As if to further emphasise her point she shakes her head slowly, closing her eyes and exhaling quietly. Enough time had passed that she was more or less accepted it, but there were still moments when she would brush a hand through her hair or try to push it back only to realise it was no longer the same length. After a lifetime of keeping it long, some habits would still linger for a while.

This was also a conversation they would have had eventually, therefore it was better to get it over with as clearly as it could be communicated. Opening her eyes again, she looks up to meet his eye with as much a neutral expression as she could muster.

"During the expedition in Flence... I'm afraid I was careless, so I found myself under the spell of one of the monsters. In the battle that followed... this was the state it ended in."