I figured.

[ She can hear and feel the shift. It doesn't scare her any more than the first time, which exactly matched the point she imagined he was making here.

He could have killed her in an instant for trying to kill him. Survival of the fittest. She had no chance, but he'd hesitated. Why? ]

A leash, what? That's just a high collar.

[ A flaky gesture towards the split second flash of his suit. ]

I meant what I said about your past, even when Mel begged me to reconsider it. I don't care about it. I just care who you are now.

[ That's the main thing, isn't it? ]

And I meant it when I said that the darkness doesn't scare me.

[ That's more like it. ]