Indeed, your confidence can lead you many different places and forming different alliances.

[He was aware of the unspoken question and side-stepped it. He knew it was petty and vulnerable to speak on such things, the real issues that neither of them could particularly swallow. Just as Jinx had stormed repeatedly against him for having an unnamed lover, he was returning the favour in his own way. That's the way they were; he valued it because it made them them.]

You will always be my daughter though. No one can take that from me.

[Except that one person she had gone off looking for as some beast of a man. That would remain an undercurrent of a threat.]