"Mm, there are a few things you'll always be best at." She kisses his cheek fondly. "Singing's only one of them."

He's far better at managing troops, for instance, and it's not like that hasn't been a relevant part of her life for the last few years. But that's neither here nor there when their daughter is there before them. "She looks so small when you hold her."

Still bigger than Cai was, but compared to the way Mia looks snuggled up with Betrys--or how she felt on the way out--she's impossibly little.