He let the braid go when he was finished and even cleaned out the brush before holding it out to Chika with a quiet 'thank you'. It was more out of sentimentality that he kept it in a braid. It reminded him of the only home he knew.

Oh, but she was talking to him. He looked at her for a moment, quiet, before he shrugged his shoulder. "I dunno. I mean, I dunno why I'm even here. Just that the Alliance had me and now they don't."