He had no plans to harm her unless one day she gave him cause. He'd never been completely betrayed by someone he trusted, so that in truth, was a hard call to make. He knew he was slipping into comfortability with her the longer they talked, and he wondered if he should have shut it down before then---but oddly enough he'd dreamed of this kind of attention from her, so even very little sent a spark inside.
This bigger world felt like a giant distraction, there was so much to look into, he was used to that rigid life of having a set direction, and right now he was really an arrow with no compass. "The open sky in the middle of the woods with trees instead of tall buildings---that's a real night sky." So maybe he was a little bit of an astronomer.