Nita can't feel the peridexis' reaction to the story, but she nods along as Xander talks, frowning a little.

"Wizardry being sentient was kind of a surprise at the time - normally wizards talk to each other to call each other out on their hangups, but here..."

Here, there was only three of them - and two of them had recently disappeared for over a week!

"You had people with you, still, while you were calling those Fauns, to snap you out of it. That's good."

And at the end of it, she finally manages a smile. An honest smile.

"Thank you. I mean it, Xander. All we can do is be there for each other, right?"

And while Nita can't feel it, the peridexis is projecting assent right along with her words.