I like it myself. It may be temp, but it's already kinda well written and it conveys a more accurate idea of what we are about to say. "Gently tell her not to be afraid and place a reassuring hand on her shoulder" is more defined than "don't worry, it's going to be alright", but there may be instances when you read a "spoken" sentence as cynical where it was actually meant to be first degree, hence not giving you the expected result in the conversation.
Sure, one may say that it's the people you're talking to that reacts first degree, but yet... I'd rather have in-your-face adjectives to avoid qui-pro-quo than be met, once again, with dialogue options that diverge from what I actually thought they meant.
Now I don't really care, I just thought it was an interesting approach to dialogue
