[He's a little mortified by his slip, but maybe not for the same reasons that Nill might suspect. Actually, he's not even completely sure why he's embarrassed by it other than the wording made it sound as though it were too intimate of a situation. Of course she knows that he'll protect her at any cost, but putting it like that...
No, he's just too awkward to accept the wording there, no matter how much he means it.
He steers the both of them down the alleyway towards Funtom.]
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[He's a little mortified by his slip, but maybe not for the same reasons that Nill might suspect. Actually, he's not even completely sure why he's embarrassed by it other than the wording made it sound as though it were too intimate of a situation. Of course she knows that he'll protect her at any cost, but putting it like that...
No, he's just too awkward to accept the wording there, no matter how much he means it.
He steers the both of them down the alleyway towards Funtom.]
Did you...ah, want to talk about it at all?