You said we fucked twice and you couldn't give me what I wanted, that wasn't untrue. I wanted to keep living in the perfect honeymoon period we had, maybe that's why it felt like falling, I don't know. You're the first person I've slept with who didn't make it seem like it was all physical so it's on me for being naive.

[ It felt, for a while, like he could trust Molly with all his heart; now, with it bruised and aching, he misses that closeness but is in no rush to open himself up the same way again. Beneath the Paladin stuff and new accent he's still the same Fjord that Molly met who closes himself off, doing it far less often now yet seemingly has a good enough reason to after Molly made a fracture in his soft heart and left him to deal with it. ]