[ ...She's going to lightly swirl her spoon in his dark cloud until it dissipates. The last time he was upset about something, she bit into a lemon to distract him and immediately regretted it; there aren't any lemons for her to do that to now though. The comfort words... ]

It's always exciting to learn how a magician performs his stunts; I think you can liken it to that sort of thing. [ She's doing so poorly at this. ] As for it being the only genuine thing you've felt from him... Some people are simply harder to move than others, I suppose.