"It's forward progress," Kanan assured her. "Now that there's communicating happening."

He fell quiet for a moment or two, himself, not sure how much he wanted to share about Kaidan's own situation. He sighed.

"He knows he can't just take me by the shoulders and steer me around," he settled on. "I don't know a hell of a lot of where his head is these days. He's a lot better at picking my brain than he is about sharing what's going on in his own."