...You know, my friend Hapi, she's in the same kind of predicament. For her, it's that losing control is dangerous. She could get a lot of people hurt if she gets careless for even just a minute.

But that's no way to live. Never able to relax. Never able to let your guard down.

[He closes his eyes a minute, then reopens them and looks at Dedue more searchingly.]

There's a lot of quiet places in Abyss. No eyes or ears. And it's not like we take tickets at the door or keep a fancy roll call.

It'd be easier to keep up the act upstairs if you let yourself breathe once in a while.