There's a note to that he catches onto. Normally Yondu notes when someone who works under someone loves them. Because that's how he'd been to Stakar. He'd had him up on a pedestal, the man that saved him from slavery, but the one he disappointed. He's done his best since to convince people in similar straights to be upfront about their feelings.

But also he sounds real Kree right now. Just something about the phrasing, the little edge of elitism. Like the *proud* kinda Kree. But folksier, which... throws him.

Anyway. Yondu's learned in his six months of being here not to jump to conclusions, and anyone deserves a chance because, well, he didn't but he got one anyway. "Stakar's a lot like that. But more the 'made an army from scratch' type." And now that he has no point to prove he'll absolutely talk up his former leader. "Sounds like your guy got ya set up real good."