[No, nothing's wrong. He almost bites back with that too, but he manages to keep himself from snapping something like that automatically in response. Instead--and gosh, there's probably an expression here about how it feels like pulling teeth for a second there, but...]
...Thanks. [Thank you for not being bothered by his secret. For caring about what happens to him. For saying that he was like a family member. Those kind of things, which he doesn't really clarify, just letting the word hang there by itself.]
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...Thanks. [Thank you for not being bothered by his secret. For caring about what happens to him. For saying that he was like a family member. Those kind of things, which he doesn't really clarify, just letting the word hang there by itself.]