Prod at injuries and people lash out. Duty feels the anger in her words, but that anger doesn't hurt him. He doesn't budge. He raises an eyebrow first at making it work. A touch of doubt.

"To stand beside you," Duty clarifies, "as you figure it out." He looks over at her again. "Takes more than that to offend me."

An offer is all it is. He cares more that Kainé does the work than whether she does it with him.