"Well, there wasn't a whole lot else either of us could do, given the circumstances. Neither of us was about to let the other out of their sight." Empathy and trust are two very different things. Though Vanyel has garnered some measure of it from Natasha throughout the course of this.

"He refrained from touching himself so I'd call it pragmatic." Might have also been the unspoken threat between them, but Nat likes to think it was out of respect. Or fear. She doesn't care which, actually.