[It feels a bit lonely, standing before his sister but knowing she doesn't know him the way he knows her. They'd had a thousand years to know one another and many more ahead of them. It was almost worse than their other father not knowing her.]
I see. Onee-sama is kind, thinking of me even when she doesn't have to.
[He wasn't trying to be mean, but it couldn't be avoided that it hurt. Still, her comments about their names make him laugh against her shoulder, shoulders shaking a bit when he does.]
Ai will always be Ai. There's no getting around that.
[And he loved her. He felt safe with her, safer still when she finally brought her arm around him too.]
Is mother here...? I could smell her when I was walking through town. And father. But I wanted to find you first.