That they can say these things to each other (it's all fine, it's always fine), seeing but not addressing the screens and veils they speak through all the while, is what allows these exchanges to work. Bruce takes comfort in the fact that Hasibe is more fine now than she was, years ago, and that the concern and protectiveness he feels for her will never be the fear for others. They've already survived worse than each other.

So he believes her, even as he doesn't, because he knows she'll do about the same. (Or she'll wait and poke at him when he's got his shirt off, whichever.)

"It's already nicer than the last two places I've been stuck against my will," he says mildly, and takes the water glass with a nod of appreciation. No, he doesn't take well to being trapped, but he also doesn't panic very easily (...at all), so at least there's that.