[How long, and how much, has she craved to hear those words. To know that she has done well, that she has made glad the people around her?

She takes a second to swallow down not tears of hurt or fear. But happiness, something washed clean after so many years. In and out, one after the other to get her voice back to even. ]

Ari - I have always - I just want to keep my family safe, and know - know that I have no shamed you. I do, that is, I am always -

[ She swallows. All the words are too much, and all their meanings confused on her tongue.

So she settles on the thing that matters most. ]

- I love you - and to be... to be your family, gives me courage most of all.