Your concern is touching, My Friend. But I do not wish to see you injured by Kaidan. Horrible and prejudice he acts, but there is heart beneath that blackness. A good man but a foolish man.

[ She smiles, touched. And she sniffs, not realizing that a tear had strayed down her cheek. ]

My greatest, most adored thanks, My Friend. You are the first to call me such in all my living years.