““Stay here with me,” he said sometime later, still holding her, sleepily. “You’re not safe on your own.” And how odd that his body could understand her so well; that his heart could understand her so well when it came to the truth about Cansrel, but still the simplest concepts never penetrated. There was nothing he could have said more guaranteed to make her leave. To be fair, she probably would have gone anyway. Out of love for her friend she waited until he was asleep.””
