[She tilts her head a bit, feeling him out. There was no angst, no self loathing or self depreciation. Only acceptance, perhaps well worn resignation. She shakes her head a bit and stretches out a hand to catch his own, turning it over.

She's drawing faint lines on his palm with her fingertips as she speaks.]

Handsome is up to interpretation. You are soft, despite being of the military, and gentlemanly, where most your size would be brutish. You are only gaunt for not being well fed, and that can be fixed with enough solid meals, and I think you may yet fill out well.