[It would be easy to keep a somber mood going, but she feels a need to try and make it light again. It won't to to have either of them staying sad.]

You were raised somewhere else. They count as your people too. You breathed the same air, you had a life there. And now you've got a place here, too. I'm not about to let you be alone.

[She smiles then, letting him take it as a playful threat if he likes.]