He winces a little, though she might not see it with the way they're positioned. Hard to miss the way her breath was just now. "You can tell me not to ask, if you'd rather not talk about it."

He's well acquainted with the idea of a lost father being a sore spot, for sure. And his breath had caught that way plenty of times soon after Altissia, when the death of someone precious caught his heart unawares. That sting doesn't fully go away, or at least it hasn't yet, so he gets it.

"...He sounds nice, though."