"You didn't do anything wrong. You didn't do anything a reasonable person wouldn't do." He closes his eyes and just... sighs. "... One time I won a writing competition. It was about owl preservation. He didn't even want to come to the ceremony. He was just... working. I didn't think that was weird, but it's just... everything changed after that."

He didn't know how badly things would go. Maybe he should have never gone - but he can't do anything about that now. "He's never hurt me before." Physically, at least. It's... a little bit of a wakeup call. "But I've never tried to touch him either. ... Most of my hugs growing up were from grieving families at the funeral home."