You can sense that something is…off…with Xiao. Your bond with him feels weirdly fluffy, floaty, as if his headspace is altered somehow. So you call him to you to check in on him, and when he appears, his behavior is unusual, to say the least. He’s rubbing his eyes and yawning like a sleepy child, and when he notices you, he tries to disguise his strange behavior but fails miserably.

“Traveler…whassamatter…i was—never mind. What ails you?”