She hasn't really had the luxury of letting her guard down. Not since she was a child and even then she was learning how to defend herself. How to fight. How to protect others.

Canien covers her grandmother's hands on her face, studying the other just as much. And yes, that's a smile right from Caranthir!

"I look like both of my parents. But enough like the other that...I could pass as someone else's child. Father's idea." Her stubborn, protective, loving father.