He sighed softly. If she was angry enough to be that blunt...well, something here had gone way too long. "They are, but that doesn't change the fact that I am repsonsible for the three of you. And - my relationship with you has always been different, Elena. Reno and Rude have been Turks almost as long as I have, before I was even Veld's second. You, I hired and trained myself. It is...difficult for me, to look past that initial dynamic."