"How did that sound anything like an ins-" she halts, brows furrowed, before trailing off with, "...Oh." The no thinking--okay, she supposes she can see how someone overly sensitive might take that--wait, she's trying not to start another fight here.

"I'm saying you're not as useless as you--wait, I mean..."

...

She runs a hand through her hair and then, finally, reluctantly, scrounges up the words for what she actually means. "--I brushed off all the soul and ghost stuff you were talking about before, but--I guess I'm saying that it--it was a mistake." And then, quickly, "But don't let that go to your head or anything!"

....Nailed....it....?