[There's no response for long enough that Kratos makes some good headway on this report. Luckily it's not something he's submitting officially, so much as something to give to Lirea. She'll have something for him in turn, no doubt. It's policy when two commanders have equal status in a camp.

[But the words, when they come, are surprising enough to make him look up with a tip of his head.]

Kind?

[Yuan does remember how many of his people Kratos has killed, surely? Certainly no one on his own side has ever called him kind, and they're his comrades.]

Where did you get that idea?