He drops a careful kiss on top of her head- it isn't an absent gesture, it isn't casual. But he knows it made him feel better when she did it, and it had worked yesterday, and he feels such deep tenderness and concern for her right now that he doesn't hold back.

"If the Admiral thought you'd be a bad warden, you wouldn't be here right now. You didn't do anything I wouldn't have done, and I'm still here, aren't I?"