[He'd be lying to himself if he said he wasn't glad the man responded to those last three words. It meant, for him, that his actions hadn't yet don't irreparable damage to something he had initially fostered.

Still... it's a loaded question and his breath comes out in suggestion of that truth.]

Keep showing him that there are people out there who care about him. [Like that's something "easily" done.] You've done more good for Zexion in these past weeks than he's done for himself in ten years of research.