You already said it. Because you're living, Mr. Sakamoto. Even if things don't change in ways you want immediately, they still will change by virtue of you being alive. Each day is different, after all. With that said, why not talk about what you wish to? It's not as though I mind listening.

[she says it so gently, one could forget that this started with her having to patch him up from politically dissident birds. the tone she has, it's like she believes these words with all her heart, and she does.

she's just not the one to talk.]