But even that, taking that niggling complication from me is taking something of yours from me, and that's something I can't abide by, can I? [ He hums a little, and then... closes his eyes. He said that in the coy tone, so it can ambiguously be read as sincere or joking. Or somewhere between the two. And in all due honesty, it is somewhere between the two where the truth lies - because while he is hyperbolic in their relationship because that's just how the act goes... It's also true that he finds some part of him resenting it. But more the point...

There's another topic worth discussing, one which weighs over him, her, and Yamato. One he wonders if she even thought of, though he suspects his boy will have, just reached a different conclusion if they were at all alike ]

But still, I'll have taken something back. After all, with packs, children stay with the mother.

[ It's tradition, that right which allowed him to claim Veronica ]