[Laughs and smiles are always good, and when they're coming from Mio, it makes Reid smile in return. Flora looks pretty pouty when Mio picks her up, but then snuggles up against her chest.

Reid looks up at her back, frowning a little bit. Elle climbs into his lap, but he doesn't immediately start petting her like she probably wants.] ...After nine years of chasing the worst kinds of people out there, I don't think I've ever met someone I hated. I would be very, very surprised if you somehow became an exception to that rule. [It's not an explicit no, partially because he's literal minded and doesn't want to be misleading, but also because he feels he owes a more nuanced answer than a simple 'yes' or 'no'. He of all people knows that guilt and sin, whether one observes it through a religious lens or not, is complicated. It's a personal battle more than anything, and he won't condemn nor forgive. It's not his place to.

His place is just to find out the truth, and then to try to give victims the tools to put their lives back together afterwards.]