He's so glad to have someone who's appreciative. Even his own mercenaries hadn't really gotten the full impact - it was just a funny, obscure name. But Sonia gets it. He hadn't realized how gratifying that is.

"I miss them fiercely," he says with a very real ache of homesickness. More so because he knows he can't go back. "If I could be there right now, I would go to them right now. Bring in the cavalry."

It's just the mission they'd be up for.