It's so strange sometimes when people you least expected make you feel SO COMFORTABLE and let you be who you really are... A person you never thought of doing like this, asking casual questions and expressing some concern... And you, tired and sleepy, feel a kind of support coming from the person when it's so much needed.
Amazing how one CAN guess (or at least pretend that he guessed, whatever) what to say, how to behave and the other cannot (or doesn't want to)...