[gansey scoffs at the growing boy comment as he pours the last of the batter into the frying pan. they're almost ready to flip when adam answers him for real, and gansey takes the moment required to do that in order to think.]

No, that doesn't make sense at all. The tiredness, I mean. The rest...is Cabeswater trying to tell you something? Or is this different?

[there's no judgment in his voice, but the words are carefully said. adam's obvious discomfort with the subject has made gansey cautious.]