"I guess you could say he was my second teacher since losing my memories." Doc being the obvious first. But Zephyr had imparted the kind of wisdom that would work far into the future while Doc taught him how to live in terms of surviving, not making...something more than a slave of himself.

His hand immediately turns to take hold of hers too when he feels her touch. The crackling for him was never a problem and he was not about to make it on.

"Though I also know he saw something in you too." After all the amount of trust he actually put in Shionne despite the frustrations of some of his own was nothing to joke about. Alphen was sure he had seen the same thing Alphen had. After all he was the wiser man of the two of them.