Tristan was about to ask why she felt she wasn't ready to face them, when Pippa turned the conversation back to him.

Wait. This wasn't how it was supposed to go.

It took him a few seconds to recover and realize that he was in a normal conversation, not talking to a patient. "Me? Oh... well, my family is alive. Well, my mother and siblings are. They're up in Newcastle."

There. He was able to have a normal conversation. The asylum hadn't taken all the humanity out of him yet, or so he liked to believe.