It's important; and it's not something he's going to be able to accept just hearing it, for all that it's also been reshaping his personal foundations for months, ever since the first time Fives said it. He smiles, his shoulders slightly lopsided between tension and relief, the smile itself a little wan, a little helpless, a little easy, until it morphs imperceptibly into a smirk.

"You can't die on me," he points out. "You called dibs on being the keystone for the chips." Which, while not at all something he actually maneuvered Fives into or planned on, he acquiesced to a lot more rapidly than he might have in other circumstances, for precisely this reason: it makes Fives just as indispensable to the plan as he is to Jedao personally. It removes the need for Jedao to force himself to distinguish between the two, and he is deeply smug about it.