[ He only nods slightly in response to Susato's reassurance. This whole ordeal--the aftermath, in fact--has been almost disorienting in how insistent the others have been in offering their support to him. It's unusual, something he never really experienced at home. He did have the support of many people, yes, but that was all obligatory, simply because he sat at the top. But nothing like this. This has been so...personal.

He still appreciates it, though. And as he's said to so many others so far, he'll do his best to accept it.

But to her second point, he doesn't respond right away. Being Firstborn Trahearne is an experience wholly impossible to replicate due to the way sylvari are, but maybe that's a good thing. That's a burden he can set aside for now, at least until the day another one appears.

That doesn't stop him from fussing over some as though they are sylvari, though. ]

...You know, there are a few I have come to treat as my own siblings. [ Flashes of a few faces pass through his mind. He chuckles a bit. ] Sometimes I forget Ori is not actually a secondborn sylvari.

[ She seems to be the right age to be secondborn, too. It's weird. ]

I hope you don't mind if I treat you as the same.

[ Because he's starting to think of her--and Beat, by extension--as younger siblings. ]