Samara might not have been as smart as he was, but she certainly could keep up. Looking back, he would have realized it was foolish that she wouldn't know what that mark was - not when she had one of her own and a number of people saw fit to go on about them. Although really the only thought he had then was 'why now?'
Eli scrubbed his face his body felt like a pile of knots pulled in the wrong direction. This was not he wanted. "In the finest of sense, I didn't keep anything from you - you simply never inquired if I was having any sort of similar experiences and there was no need to share any findings before they were somewhat more conclusive."
It wasn't the first time that Eli had kept secrets from Samara and it wouldn't be the last. It was just the less common version where those secrets directly effected the two of them.