"I've told you I made a deal with darkness, Lady. It appears to have been in a very literal sense." He's trying. Trying to be honest with her, but still worried of what the truth might do to her. He found that he'd started to enjoy her company. Come to enjoy seeing her and making her smile. He'd gotten used to being alone for so long before the Storm had tossed him here, she'd been one of the first he'd found himself attaching to. He didn't want to lose that.

She stopped, and he stopped along with her. She seemed so serious, as if there was a point to this, so he gave it the thought it deserved. "I believe that we can allow ourselves to be swept along with everything, or we can try to carve out our own existence. Our own ways."