"Oh-ho, hey there," he chuckles as her arms wrap around him. Of course he allows it for once-little Cassandra. He's just as warm and firm as her childhood memories say he was, if a little smaller, now that she's grown.

... And he has no idea what happened after he disappeared from the House. He has no reference for the years of her life between when he showed up and as she is now, but he knows that a noble family has more loyalty to their family and their home than most, and that Cassandra is not there.

Softly: "You must miss them very much."