"... Oh," Gen said, because there's being blithe and cheerful and foolish-looking - and then there's coming off as genuinely callous, which hadn't been his intention at all. That wasn't the sort of persona he was building here - not to mention, it wasn't how he felt about the matter, either.

"I'm sorry to hear that," Gen told him, with genuine sympathy. "How, err, recent, was that kind of thing, for you?"