[Yuan appreciates that, in his way. Kratos always has had a good hand for reading him.]

[And it has, all hesitations and stops aside, been a good and fairly successful morning. Hopeful, all around. It's worth the trouble to watch Lloyd and Kratos hand in hand, and Lloyd's sunny smile.]

[So Yuan pauses a moment to appreciate the way things seem to be beginning to settle before shooing the children inside, following for the thought of breakfast, and making a level attempt to pretend he wasn't smiling in the first place.]