Mitsuri leaning in surprises Dot, but not necessarily in a bad way. It'd been a while since she last felt a bit like a big sister. After a moment's hesitation, she lifts a hand and gently strokes the younger girl on the head. There, there.

"Mm, the Empress and her consort still live happily together in the Palace to this day," she reassures. He is rather weak now and her children all became a bunch of weird, terrible little monsters in a later accident but! That wasn’t the question. The love was still there and that was what really mattered.