Were you close to them, then?

[ Handing them off? Maybe that's why he had so many, but Silco couldn't imagine not raising his daughter. She had been his, after... everything that had happened. Every loss had led him to her. Everything. ]

Are you forced to continue your work in their name here?

[ He would hate it. Working for someone else, subservience. Though...

If it was required? ]

I would do the same if I had to.