Well that was audacious of him. She's almost impressed, though the eyebrow she crooks in his direction speaks more of surprise and dry amusement than anything else.

"I beg your pardon?"

Because of course it's nothing like that. They are...whatever they are, and while she's able to comfort and support him in her own way, to assume anything more? It seems laughable. It's complex.

And it's certainly not Alistair's place to ask. And yet here they are.