Tori nodded, trying and failing to surreptitiously wipe her red, puffy eyes as she laughed at Nimmie's brief anecdote. "Yeah, sure. Go right ahead. Give me a holler if you need any help." With that, she returned to working on her gauntlets.

Or, well, she [i]tried[/i] to return to working on her gauntlets.

Every time she tried to work, she found herself coming back to the fact that [i]Nimmie was here.[/i] She found herself unable to concentrate and, after she nearly broke the injector that she'd previously fixed, sighed and set down her tools, turning back to Nimmie. "So," she began awkwardly, "what have you been doing all these years? Where have you been? What's been going on? How's life been treating you?" 

Try as she might, she was unable to stop herself from asking a rapid series of questions. A faint blush came to her face and she bent back over Sigyn as she realized she was doing the whole 'mothering' thing again.