[The immediate silence speaks volumes, doesn't it?]

Jade is...difficult to be close to, on the best of days. It was worse, perhaps, when he was a child - but so was I, and what I remember is...tinted by being so young. We are closer now than we were, then; now that both of us know a little more about the world, and each other.

...Looking back on it, though...I can see where he was doing his best to convey...affection.