[Because someone has to. Someone has to care about his well-being, how he feels. No one should be made to feel as his father made him. It's built an unstable young man, but she believes that isn't the end.]

I don't know. [Better than words that might make it sound like some sort of obligation. It's not. Not anymore, anyway.] Sometimes what draws us to people can't be explained, and that's all right. I just know that when we went out so you could show me your archery, it made me happy to see you... happy, I think. I want to see you happy.

[Probably more than his father wanted for him.]