"But it’s scarier than anything you can think of. Because you have to open up to her, chummer, and there’s every little lie and deception coming back to you, everything you ever did to someone because you were cowardly or afraid; that, mostly, rather than when you really used someone deliberately, because Bear doesn’t often take someone really into that. Every humiliation you ever suffered, every time you were vulnerable and got fragged over, every time you tried to use your sensitivity and love and it went to waste, just like it does so often, and you ended up with nothing but yourself and it seemed like another piece was chipped away and lost forever. You fall into Bear’s arms on an ocean of hurt, Serrin. It’s too much for anyone to handle, I promise you.