He was actually shocked that reaction didn't come with more volatile protests. The surprise was written all over his expression when instead the teen asked a perfectly reasonable question.

Even if he wasn't going to like the answer. "Not as long as she wants us dead." That much was never going to change, she'd said she had memories of them, she knew and worse than it not mattering at all, it was the driving force behind her resentment.

"Tell you what, you come up with something else, then let me know."