[Hey you'll have to give him a minute before he can answer that question, because that smile causes him actual physical pain. He can absolutely believe she's Ardyn's daughter. She's so like her father, her cousin -

He runs his hands though his hair in a gesture that's more Ardyn's than his and sighs.]

This? It's another reality entirely - further removed from either of ours than they are from each other, I should think.