"No, no, I - it's me who was - I just... I barely know you and I'm asking for hugs and I don't know what kind of relationships you have and it's... I'm just kind of a disaster." His shoulders slump a little. "I... I hope you don't get killed by him. I've... I've been hurt - no, I've been killed - by someone I trusted. And so I... I get it. I get the fear."

He'd been suspicious of Caspian but wanted to hope for the best from their drug-addled thief. And then the whole Incident happened and his whole existence was thrown into even further disarray and he's still not sure what the right thing to do there was but it got him nothing but grief and guilt.

"I don't... get touched. Like my dad wasn't one for physical punishment, just... fear? And so the most touching I got was from ghosts or from Bob -" Yes, the raven had escaped before The Huggening and is just staring down at them. "... And I couldn't even feel the ghosts until recently? Like I could see and hear them but... no touching. And my best non-bird friend was the ghost of a serial killer? So like... I'm kind of a freak. I... I get it if you don't want anything to do with me. It's probably safer that way, given how Fate tends to fuck over anyone within striking range of a Scion. ... And I don't want you to get hurt."