... right.

[well, there goes any possibility of explaining this easily, if she can't relate. sighing, he reaches up to thumb at his goatee, before bluntly (because why the fuck not, at this point?), he tells her:] When we were in that place, my personal little hell was that the people I cared about suddenly decided to try and kill me. Aiden featured fairly heavily in it.

[a beat]

So did you.