It takes another few seconds for the words to really sink in, but once they do he's hit with a tidal wave of conflicting emotions.

"I think you're a kid who was given the short end of the stick," he says, painfully honest. Delicacy and polite untruths don't play into Steve's wheelhouse. "The war I fought against your father does not fall on your shoulders, just because you're his blood. I don't like bullies, Sinthia. People who try to push other people around and force them to do whatever they want. I believe everyone makes their own destiny."