"But I know you would've pulled it off in the end and gotten back at them tenfold. That's who you are, how it's always been.." He smiled at her, giving her hand a gentle, reassuring squeeze. It was one of those things he'd picked up over time in his observations of humans. Those sorts of subtle actions seemed to be particularly comforting to them.

"Remember when things used to be a lot simpler? When the Council grounded you and it felt like a dead end? If memory serves, you turned that situation completely around and ultimately saved us all. The solution would've come to you, in time."