He's not the best at reading between the lines, but feelings are specialties of his, one of the few things he truly seems to understands. Sometimes.

Her I think gives pause to an otherwise overly talkative and thoughtless individual. He rolls that over and wonders. Could be shock. There were a lot of things that hadn't fully registered with him until he had time away from the events and wasn't constantly on the run. "Might be," he agrees. Time. This place sometimes offers plenty of it before the next torture.

"That's huge!" Of course, the house Setsuna had lived in with his father was bigger than necessary just for the two of them, but it was no where near that big. "So...if you destroyed that, you're pretty powerful, huh?"