[It doesn't occur to her just why this might be so important. That Ben has had so little control over how anyone has spoken about him for so many years that this might be a far more sensitive issue that it might be with others. Klaus had kept the things he told her to mostly things about himself, but Ben had been so intrinsically linked into some of those things.]

He's told me about how he grew up. The Umbrella Academy? I know he wasn't fighting crime on his own.

[She sighs, and finally looks at him enough to add up the physical signs of his discomfort. He's not looking at her. The tension across his shoulders. She might be unobservant at times but she isn't blind.]

And what you can do, he told me a bit about it. I mean... I haven't asked what you did back there. [So maybe that part was obvious.] But, like... nothing super-personal? Just about him. The rehab, shit like that. That you've always been there for him.