From Shego's perspective, it was less comforting and more of a reasoned argument in favour of him not being such a whiny little girl, but if it worked then she didn't really care if he took it as a kindness or not.

"Well, yeah. If it's actually been eight months then they'd have probably fired you for going AWOL or declared you missing-presumed-dead or whatever."

There were issues about time on the Barge relative to time back home that still itched at her. The flood where she'd turned into Kimmy - she'd said that the two of them had done stuff that Shego knew had never happened. She didn't know what the heck the deal was with that.