Hearing it is always different than knowing it. And it's hard to hear, surprisingly, because the idea of expendibility is so deeply ingrained, the feeling of unimportance. He can be killed, he can be exiled, he can be abandoned with ease. He's not truly important to anyone.

Except right now he might be.

"Alright." Yondu agrees quietly, in that tired gravel tone of his. Though it's not entirely truthful. He still can't believe it. He still would absolutely walk into the line of fire for someone more important than him. He just has to make sure Soldat doesn't see it, right?