He's not the same Jade that we knew here. [There was nothing of his experience in Luceti to change him. No Gelda Nebilim to forgive him.] I think it is especially hard when dealing with him because the differences became so pronounced.

[Not to you. Not my sister. Nephry closes her eyes and rubs her forehead.]

The man that he was...saw everyone as, I suppose, something to be analyzed, if not solved. To be dismantled for the sake of understanding what it was meant to do, and that includes why and how and what we choose to think.

But I know he doesn't think that way about you. Even if he doesn't grasp how to show the difference. ...He doesn't want anything to happen to you, either.