Callan watched Elliot and felt that familiar pang of guilt in his chest… there was a part of him that wished they could have met farther in advance of the bonding so that Cal could have discussed things with Elliot then, not now. He could tell that Elliot meant it when he said he was tired, and Cal assumed it wasn't just physically. "You should rest." He said, going over to take the plate of unfinished food, he'd put it in the fridge for later just in case, though he hoped a carriage may still arrive it seemed to be less likely… He hoped that Sol had considered the option of sending a human driven carriage in the morning.<br/><br/>Before he left the room he looked down at the human again and nearly reached out to pat his head as an adult might a child, but he refrained. Elliot hadn't minded his comforting earlier but he doubted he wanted it now. "There is one more thing." He decided to say. "I do think of us as equals. I do not think of you as a child or pet, and you opinion and thoughts do matter to me. I apologize if I did not make that clear before. While others may think poorly of it, I do truly admire humans… I could never think of them as lesser to myself." It wasn't that he didn't like Elliot, or that he thought he was just a kid… it was simply that Cal didn't have a better solution for things as they stood right now.<br/><br/>With that he turned to leave the room, though he planned to stay up in the event Elliot needed anything. "Call if you need me, I will be just outside." He assured him, while he figured Elliot wouldn't want him in the room he didn't plan to go far. He didn't think Elliot was a child but he did want to care for him fully, even if that did mean treating him a little bit like he was younger than he was, but it wasn't as though he'd ever had a partner or anything like that to care for in the past.