"All of my threats bear the weights of promises, Ms Ghafa," he notes with a wicked look, though they know it's the truth as well. He never threatens if he's not willing to follow up on it. Even if pushing her back into the water is the last thing he wants to do.

"One of a lucky few," he notes, even if a few is being much too kind. Two people. Two people who got the chance to see this, to know him in this way. He can't imagine opening up this way to anyone else. Not when being this open is dangerous in his mind and he wouldn't take the chance.

"I'm glad in seeing it you haven't run screaming into the night yet," he notes, though he knows she won't. Not ever. No matter how much of himself he reveals.