I wouldn't ask these things of someone I've only just met if they weren't important.

[She seemed to consider holding out a hand to him before thinking better of it, folding both delicately atop the thin blanket drawn over her instead.]

Perhaps even that is a poor excuse. As his mother, I shouldn't lean on the kindness of strangers, but you two seem close, and you're his friend...

[Meeting Vincent's gaze, Aria left no room for him to interject and correct her. These weren't assumptions she was making, she was sure of that.]

...please look after him? No mother should ever admit this of her child, but I don't think that boy has any other friends.