"I tried," Iain said softly. "I always did try." Then he laughed quietly. "Yeah, I remember that. The adults around us hadn't given me any reason to trust them, I had no reason to think he'd be any different. I remember hearing 'But Iain said it'd be fine!' more than once. But no, apparently it wasn't fine. But we needed the structure, god knows we hadn't had it at all up until that point."