Xanthippe's face went on a whole journey of expressions.

First, she just looked kind of surprised and honestly almost faintly amused that he'd sassed her with the 'tears of joy' bit.

Then her expression opened up, because... Okay, no one but the shrinks they'd sent her to during and after her parents' divorce had really even tried to read her like that.

But, that also meant that no one had actually looked at her that closely, and she really only knew of one reaction to any danger to whatever front she was currently presenting. And that was to go on the defense.

Her eyebrows furrowed. Hard. "That's just, that's not true," she sputtered. "I'm just fine or whatever, it's normal to not be hap--"

Yeah, okay, she knew how stupid that sounded, and her mouth snapped shut.