[ The apology makes Kongwai blink and look up from his food. Evidently he didn't notice or care about the tragedy happening to his hair. It doesn't take him too long to grasp the situation and react accordingly (i.e., smile and pretend he isn't just now noticing the horse drool). ]

It's quite all right. Things like that are nothing new for me.

[ A certain mouse probably gnawed on him more times than he would ever care to admit. ]

And I can't exactly blame the poor dear for being stressed either.

[ They've been stuck here for far too long, and he supposes that's doubly worse for a horse with no space to really run around. Not that he understands that feeling very well, being an indoors person who'd sit down and read most of the day away.

At any rate, in the worst case scenario, he can read to the horse to distract it, stares be damned. ]