[He knows Yang's not being entirely serious. She's not wrong, but he knows it's just something arbitrary…but it's enough. It's enough to get a laugh out of him and finally, finally he relaxes enough to break out of his cycle of sudden fear.]

I'm pretty sure losing your swimsuit in front of everybody in the colony is probably the scariest thing possible. [Let's just. Follow this. Let's just follow this train of thought to keep calm and try to rationalize what he's doing.] I really miss the beach…I know I'd go without questioning it. It'd be the perfect trap. Besides, it's almost May. We're almost at beach weather. Maybe we'll see that sooner than we think.

[Good job, Yang. You've successfully calmed him down even if it's only temporary.]