She looked down at Haro, avoiding Mikaela's eyes. "Trust your brothers, everyone else is a target," she muttered. "That's what it-- I mean-- That's what it always was." She should be laughing at Mikaela, she knew, all that empathy stuff was total bullshit and she was a soldier so it was useless anyway-- but Cross bought her things even if she didn't whine for them and Shiro had cried when he'd thought she was dead, and Tieria was obnoxious and bitchy but he could have thrown them to the dogs so many times and he warned them instead--

She wished Johann were there. He would have told her what was right. But that was another thing, wasn't it? Don't get attached to anyone other than your brothers, because you never know when you might have to kill them. And then he'd gone and died, and Michael had almost done, so anyone could die, anyone, so don't get too close--

In the end she just scowled at the floor and kicked the television remote so hard it left a dent in the wall, which pretty accurately summed up her feelings.