You've done good things for me, Rue.

[A soothing stroke at her shoulder.]

You've helped me.

The things that happened in the past... I don't think that I understand them. But... You don't act in that way anymore. And... I don't believe that I do, either.

[He just doesn't know why sometimes he feels a strange, burning sensation within him. Slightly more gradual with each emotion gained. It's never happened around another person.]