[Don't be an idiot. Lloyd deserves to know his father. I would have stormed Welgaia for you if I had to.]

[In contrast to Yuan's fairly neutral expression, the mental admission, while brisk, has naked emotion in it. And also the sensation of a gentle slap upside the head, though Yuan himself remains as utterly still as he had been.]

Colette is... a very compassionate young woman.

[She's the sort of person who can't bear the thought that there might be something she could do; even if that something might end up being her own life.]