[He nods. Slowly but surely, he feels comfortable reintegrating some of his emotions into himself without immediately crumbling under the weight of them.]

I do not know if I have told you this, or if I only mentioned it in passing, when you could not have known to find it important. But my brother is on Yatagarasu. I don't see him there now, in their cage... but the team is kin to me, as much as Sphinx is. I spend just as much time in their dormitory as my own.