"I didn't leave because I didn't. Because I don't," Faye said softly, leaning into him. It was very nice to be held right now. Partly because she was exhausted, and partly because it had taken everything she had left to manage to say that right now, and it had turned out to not be that scary, after all. "I left because I do. And it's less scary now."

See, look, she was trying to explain.