[Maybe she's right; this truth deserves its own place, its own time. And yet it may have made it easier, to slip it in with the rest. Now Raine will need to find the strength to bring it up again, a postscript to a conversation of unspoken lies revealed.

[Kratos also knows it isn't nothing.]

Raine.

[He waits for a moment, until she looks back at him -- so he can hold her gaze.]

If there is something, anything, I can do, do not hide it from me. If not now, then in the future. Let me help you, as you've helped me. I stand with you.

[Some of the best and worst peoples he's known have been half-elves. Some of the best and worst people he's known have been humans. Raine is among the best, no matter what side of her lineage people look at.]