That's fair enough, and Pahja grins at both of them before trying to usher them both out of the main corridors of the train so that they're both afforded some sense of privacy and not blocking the main thoroughfare. That way at least Emet can be saved some mortification lest someone come across them.

"It would seem that we balance each other out most excellently," she says, though she had her suspicions on that for far longer. Since Elpis, even. "There are some here I do like, and care about, but you both are perhaps the biggest."

There's no shame in admitting it, at least not on Pahja's behalf.