Not just this. [He waves his hand generally at the lighthouse. This Whole Double-Barreled Semi-aquatic Bullshit.]

Others using her, betraying her trust in different ways... Maybe it's inevitable and we're fools for hoping it won't. People are what they are. I'd hazard a guess we've both seen enough of that by now to know.

[Now Therion's as serious as he's ever been with her, but he's a little quieter, too. He turns his head to look at some of the other test subjects talking with one another, reforging bonds, thanking and apologizing and embracing.]

But if she's got someone with her long enough that never, ever betrays her... maybe that'd be an even trade for all this.