"They were just stories for me too, once. But then I got the truth thrust in my face." Looks around for a moment before sighing. "Let's talk somewhere else then. But promise you won't tell anyone?" The idea of telling someone else how he feels scares him but at the same time he would be so liberating to talk about this to someone not part of the curse. And he doesn't want to do it out in the open. It's his private feelings. Stuff he hadn't even written down. "Is there somewhere we can be alone and uninterrupted?"