September nods once, as though acknowledging the effort to relieve tension. At Steve's query, he pauses for a beat, thinking.

"I am physically well. Personal contact has become sufficiently regular." Wow. That was actually rather tactful... for him. "I have... continued to encounter situations which elicit emotional reactions, however, and have found them... painful."

His gaze drops, comes back up. "Someone whom I consider to be a friend arrived here from my universe, but he was unhappy here and found a way home. I..." Here he stops, gathering the words. "I... miss him. And I have found that... I now miss others that I did not have the capacity to miss, earlier. I... think I know why Diarmuid is often saddened...."

He's almost babbling.