Gods, it was good to see Envy and Aeron’s faces. It made Kire feel all the more that it was over, and that she had, in fact, survived the ordeal. At his question about Ysaryn and Ruli, she answered readily, minus Ysaryn’s greeting for Zeke. Kire felt Gavin’s death-grip on her wrist, however, and realized too late that there was one other thing besides Shadow-Walking they hadn’t explained to him. “Calm down, Gavin, he’s on our side,” she whispered. Gavin swallowed; nodding. If he could accept that Kire was a totally different entity from the doll version of her, he could accept that there was a good-hearted Kartaian. To Envy, Kire said, “The one to my left is Gavin. He’s the Gemini, just so you know, but he’s not what he seemed. He had been under their control, but he’s free now.” Gavin bowed his head at this, swallowing. Kire continued. “The one to my right,” she paused, looking at Rab, amused at his inquisitiveness, “is Rab. Similarly freed from Ikegai and Akuma. He’s half-Kartaian. He can’t speak. Rab, Gavin, this is Envy, and the boy is Aeron. They used to live in Ziad.” 

“I—” Gavin swallowed again, then sunk into silence, not quite knowing what to say. He looked to Kire, waiting for instruction, realizing with frustration that despite being free now he didn’t know what to decide to do. 
“May they stay here, for the meantime, while they figure out what they want to do with their hard-won freedom?” she asked in his stead, smirking at Gavin briefly.