"They're alive," he says, a bit too quickly but still genuine. "Maelle, Lune and Sciel."

He's... not sure what else he should say. There's so much that the humans back in Lumiere would never know, that... maybe now they'd never discover for themselves. Not until they get Maelle back there herself.

Merde. Verso owed him for this.

"We're protecting them. Verso and me. Not that they really need it."