Well, dammit. That is disarming. Hope hits Maya with a look of the tiniest skepticism before it cracks their face into a smile and a laugh. "The apothecary told you all that?"

They don't really have a clever way to follow that up, but it does make them feel a little less miserable, and that's kind of the goal, right? Besides, Maya is going to all these lengths to try to cheer them up in the first place. It would be rude to not show some kind of effort. (Fake it 'til you make it, right?)

"Well, I hope this movie's dumb enough to push everything out for a while. You like action movies?" they ask, realizing how little they know about Maya. "You kind of struck me as... either an artsier person or a die-hard comedy fan. Maybe both at once."