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[ His words make it almost hard to breathe. He, better than anyone here, understands what she's lived through; they've exchanged enough of their lives with one another to know how hard trust is created within them; exchanged enough to know just how delicate it is when it is born. It's something precious for people like them. Their lives may not have been the same, their suffering different, but they still both grew hard from it; learned to protect themselves from the world and how to strike down anyone who gets in too close. ]

Thank you. [ Breatheless. He trusts her, she's known that but it's different when it's said aloud—it turns it into a promise. ]

You know I won't lie to you, either. I won't do anything to break your trust, not if I can help it. [ She'd rather die again than do that. ]