Yes?

[She blinks, confused by why he would even ask that and suddenly wonders if she should be defending Kou.]

I mean, sometimes he's a butt, but he's still really good! 'nd he's always been protecting me. Like this one time I wanted to go feed some pigeons, or at least I thought they were pigeons. [They were actually stymphalian birds.] But um, anyways, I wanted to pet them 'nd I don't really know what happened but Kou took one look at them and had scooped me up and ran into a crowd and didn't let me go until we were all the way home! 'nd that was like... Five miles?

[Two blocks, actually, but she'd been small so it had seemed like longer.]

So he's like the best, best, best brother... Ah! Be-besides Jehan cause he's also the best, best, best brother 'nd...

[Now she's rambling, talking in circles really with wide eyes.]