( history has a habit of repeating itself in the worst ways. he wasn't killed the way yosuke was, and that's perhaps the smallest of mercies or she'd be a bit more useless, but- it always is going to be brothers first, isn't it?

satoko is a small woman, but the situation makes it too easy for her to give the younger boy a hug, warm and protective and maybe a little desperate- like she's asking him not to follow his brother, just in case. because yes, there's work to do. but there's also a broken heart that's in need of care and no one's going to understand this better than her. )

Raphael... do you want to step back for a second? Not the whole investigation, I won't ask that of you. But just enough to breathe?