[Apollo's information download is met with a few heartbeats of silence but there is no sense of hesitation to the quiet. It's more like Bes is processing things, choosing his words carefully. When he finally speaks, his voice is low and fervent. Honesty is over everything.]

You can trust that I care for her more than any other woman I've met. She deserves all of the love and happiness and support in the world. I'm good at support. It's what I do, what I am. I want to be support for her. I want... I want her to be strong if she wants or weak if she wants and I want her to be okay with being either around me.

Those three words, though, the three important ones... I'm not going to say them now on the phone with you because she's the first who should know and she should hear them from me.

Apollow... I don't know how but she's got me. Just like that. And... If it would be alright with you, I would like to visit her.