[There's a quiet 'hm' as he lets her know he's listening, though there isn't much else he can say on the matter seeing as he's always been at kind of a loss on how to deal with Kaede.]

I'm gonna talk to them, obviously. Think that's about all I can do, really.

All Kaede will probably let me do that is. Pretty sure she thinks I'm gonna scare anyone off. [Which isn't exactly false...]