[Makotos' the first person to actually ask this question, and Oona blinks slowly. She won't lie, of course, so she tilts her head]

We are alike. We hate CERES, and there is... understanding there, suppose you could say. That is all I can think to describe it.

As for deal... It was a memory. The happiest memory I could think of. Of course, I do not know what that memory was now. [Which does bother her a little, but she shakes her head] It does not matter. It was but a small price to pay to have this back to me. [She slides a hand adoringly against the scales at her hip and smiles slightly.] Will make more happy memories.