Thank you, Ma'am. I'll feel safer about it knowing it's in your care.

[ And picking up on that last part of Kaien ]

If the files on the Themis database, the stories from An'yu-sama, and the esteem Hikaru holds the man in weren't enough, Ma'am, seeing memories of him make that beyond contestation.

[ Brig remembers Kaien giving the child a tiny dancer toy in the memory; it slowly paints a look of melancholy on his face. ]