The fox couldn't help a small blush creep onto his cheeks. "Yeah... that was a very near thing."

He put one of his paws over hers reassuringly. "I definitely do. But it's never a bad thing to get away from it, just for a little while. After all..." He lightly booped her nose with his other paw. "...some of us wanna see you from time to time." He meant that lightheartedly, not intending it as any sort of bad thing - after all, the work she did and the job she had was extremely important, as was his. And he enjoyed the time he got with her. He was trying to be intentionally silly now.