"Okay." Easy and comfortable, important for the next attempt. "Thank you. For offering both help and distractions." Both very important things for..well, for both of them. She probably would have freaked out much harder if he weren't there. Or possibly wouldn't have even tried to push that far at all.
"It's a very pretty mug, thank you very much." She turned her head quarter profile, showing off his jawline and that wide, unabashed smile of his that she flashed. "So, shush." Very clever comeback lobbed his way, complete with sticking out his tongue.
"How are you doing with everything?" She was going to raise an eyebrow, but was apparently having a difficult time with it as the eyebrow wouldn't comply. After a minute, Syd attempted to lift the other one, the one she personally couldn't lift, and found it went up easily. Backwards. Duly noted.