Kankri sits next to Venus, letting her handle the talking. If she's friends with Ellie then she should be doing the talking now that things have calmed down, right?

He sets a napkin and a danish on Venus's lap, then hands another to Ellie, and finally offers Joel a croissant. Stale, but better than nothing. And surely Venus can't object to him sharing with her friends.

"She's doing better than she was when I initially found her," he observes as he nibbles his pastry. "It wasn't a pretty sight. But we've been all right since then."