I don’t need my bond to kick in and make its own assessment of this situation known; I take in every inch of this man until this image is burned into my consciousness as deeply as it’s burned into Oleander’s. This is terrifying to her. This is a trauma that she’s had tucked away deeply in her mind for years that this connection she’s managed to form between us both has pulled out and ripped open into the light of day. This is something that she never wanted to think about again. Now it belongs to the both of us.
