Ann frowns, seeing how Crow tenses. It really seems...like this affected him in a strong way. "I guess your situation...was a lot closer to home," Ann says. "Makes sense, if you consider a small town compared to Tokyo..." Every request and every Palace had hit hard, for Panther. She'd never forgotten even a single one. But it's not like they'd really been personal, except for the one that started it all; all of the friends she'd made, she'd made during or after the fact, so it didn't really count.

"You saved her, though." It's not a question. Ann says it with confidence, meant as a reassurance to the boy who looks so shaken by his memories before her.