The touch of her hand surprise Sylvain and offered a soothing salve to his heart that he had not expected. Even if it was just as a friend, that tiny little gesture meant the world to him.
Nodding he replied, "I think that is... quite evident. Oddly enough, I don't doubt your mother at all... It is so different than who my mother has always been... but I can't deny it outright. If she was Baras' top assassin... this Magpie... for a long time, then there is no telling what she is anymore."
He smiled a bit of a wounded smile, "I guess my world has just been torn up so frequently in the past year that I'm starting to get acclimated to all this tumult... Despite having no desire for it myself. Most things have stopped surprising me."