[ Cale wants to point out that no one is duty-bound to stick around. Ron and Viscross might be in his service, but he's even Ron leave before. Even Sylvain could go and do what he wanted with whomever he wanted. All Cale had wanted for this man who gives him these lazy, sweet kisses that scream affection and fondness is Freedom of Choice. To be able to finally take his life in his hands and do with it what he hadn't been able to before.

So what is it that makes them all stay? What is it that makes Sylvain stay? ]

I'm perfectly fine as long as Vitality of the Heart never wavers. It's not as though any of them owe met for anything. Everything I did was ultimately for myself.

[ That doesn't really explain why he raised the cats and the dragon though. He fusses over them the most. Definitely acts like a parent and Cale knows it. ]

They've been returning the favor for years.