She doesn't quite get the energy level thing, but she nods, and she looks sad for just a moment when he mentions his brother. It's sympathy, she's made of too many emotions always, and right now she's just... wishing that he didn't have to say it in past tense. That he'd never lost his family, but she doesn't say anything because it's not the sort of thing you say.

She smiles when he does, and she nods to herself - she knows that Joel is his favorite person, and with good reason - and once he offers help to go upstairs, she pauses. "If... if you're serious, like... serious, serious-" About staying, that is. "I can get up there myself. Believe me, I've done a lot of stairs with crutches."

He reassures her that he meant it, and that's that - she can't thank him enough, she can't- it's gratitude, but it's more than that. It's so much more than that, and he's opened his home to her, and she knows she'll never be able to repay it - but she's thankful.