"Yeah, yeah." She can hear him pulling things out but she can't actually feel it, and that's weird as fuck. She glances over to watch impassively. "Look, I can help you out with this part, this part shouldn't be too bad. Let's just focus on that today, all right?"

On that, and nothing else - not dreams or future restoration plans or anything. Getting the arm to work mechanically again is going to take enough time as it is. Should keep them occupied for a good while, and that'll buy her time to get used to his insistence on trying to work out the other thing. His impatience is obvious and expected but he's being slow and methodical now, and hopefully he can just maintain that for a while.