[ god is she really going to counsel him through this? Is she the right one to do so? But he called her, so evidently she is. Even if some part of her, instincts she hates which are just as selfish as Red Son insists he is, will probably hiss at her from their shadowed corners. She'll shut them up as she usually does. ]

[ She blatantly encouraged MK before, so it's not as though she has any doubt about where her feelings ultimately are. It's just as things always are, the dark and light of her clashing. ]

He's like me. We suck at lying, especially to people we care about. [ So no, not a lie. Red Son just has to stop being afraid of it and in disbelief about it and all the other things and accept it. Easy to say, perhaps not easy to do. ]

You've said this a few times. How knowing that changed things.