It wasn't that I thought you'd try to hurt me. [ With telepathy. It wasn't that she didn't trust him, it was - ] I felt so small sometimes. I thought I'd just be swallowed up, in all that is Charles, and there wouldn't be anything left.

[ There was just so much of him, and when she was small, it was all so perfect. Like a fairy tale, and she was rescued by a prince and she became family. She had a beautiful life. And he was good, and true, and kind.

Later, she still knew he was protecting her. But it hurt anyway. ]

You seemed happy, with other people. I never was... I don't like hiding.

And I don't want you to be hurt but maybe... [ Maybe it's better that he knows how she felt, then. He could pass for human, and if anyone had suspicions, he could nudge them right out of their mind. Raven hadn't been afraid of him because he was cruel, but because she was powerless. He was rich, he was a man, he was a telepath; she isn't sure he even knows what it's like to feel powerless.

She drops what she was going to say. ]

You'll convince them. You always do.