What do you mean? How's he bein' a jerk?

( Nico just laughs. )

Nah, I know he 's grateful underneath that frown of his. Even if we don't really say it, ever since we Bonded ...

( Similar to Edelgard and Hubert, she suspects. Being able to feel the depth of Nero's appreciation of her had been new and different - and she suspects that went both ways. )

We're just not very good at talkin' about it, is all.