Dan shrugged a little when she apologized for something she had no control over. "Maybe I just attract the violent ones," he suggested, and the more he thought on it, the more it made a sick sort of sense. The violent ones and the trapped ones. Huh.
He smiled at her offer of protection, though. "Thanks," he said, and then sat up a little bit straighter again. "If there's anything I can do in return, just ask."