In the moment, perhaps I did. [She says honestly, knowing that it all has to be left out on the table.] But it's hard for me to explain what it's like for me. My gift draws me towards people in need. It doesn't matter if I've known them for years or minutes, if the damage is dire, there is something in me that needs to seek it out, to try to repair it.

When you grabbed me, pulled me out of there, it felt like being ripped away from the one thing I needed to do. It didn't hurt... I don't want you to think that. But so long as she was alive, that part of me was focused only on trying to save her.

[She reaches out to take his hand in hers.] I know what you did, you did to protect me. And for that, I am grateful... it's the reason that I told you to begin with. I know that so long as I have you, you won't let me go too far, but...

[She hesitates, because this was meant to be simply an apology. But she has her own concerns, and perhaps now is as good a time as any to address them.]

I need to know that you won't simply refuse to let me heal. [He's larger than her, stronger, and if he wanted, he could simply cart her off any time she tried to work her healing magic.]