The situation may be delicate, but they were working through it the best they could. At the least, neither was getting worse so far, so it was definitely a point in favor of them staying together and calming each other down. Eli might not be calming down, but he's always been the sort to care about others ahead of himself, even to his own detriment.

"Cold? No, it's nothing like that. You don't need to worry about it," he said as he stopped Shannon from taking off the jacket. Eli forced his body to still the best he could and ruffled Shannon's hair affectionately. Outside the door in the living room sat Matheus and Eli was still very aware of that fact. He needed to get Shannon to something resembling stable before he could go deal with the elephant in the other room.