It takes everything in his body not to pop up after her, but Frank is assessing how much recovery this will take. He knows this is partially just stubbornness, but he's hoping it's also serving the dual purpose of distracting Clara from her own mortality. It would have made a neat replacement for "talking about it" if not for her follow-up, to which Frank swivels his head to regard her seriously.

"Alright, yeah. You're right." He bounces his knee as he waits for the questions to start rolling in. "What part of it specifically do you wanna talk about over peanutbutter sandwiches with the crusts cut off?" Sometimes, he can't help a bit of trolling even while being 100% sincere as well.