"I'd meant more at this moment.... Sometimes, the only thing to do is to focus on what one can handle. I don't know the extent of what you're dealing with, only that it seems to be affecting you greatly... and if, as you say, magic can't help... if you can't solve whatever is the matter... is there anything that might at least help you take your mind off of it?

"Do you have hobbies, aside from your training? Art, perhaps? Music? Gardening? ...I have some of my roses here, even ones that grow to be the color of your hair, if you'd like to help me tend to them?"

Mallia'd said she kept herself busy with various projects... she never said that some of them couldn't also be relaxing endeavors.