"Ah." There's that word again, and his coffee cup... well, he could probably better pull off the illusion of how mesmerizing it was, if there were any coffee left in it.

"Yeah, he really is." Eventually he looked up, if not quite directly at his roommate.

"It's just... you know." Xander made a small, vague, possibly frustrated motion with one hand. "It's not exactly the 'nice' part that makes things complicated."