His hands stilled as Link started to speak, biting his lip. He knew all too well what that felt like.
"I understand. I understand completely, that is exactly how I feel. You've seen him. He's this golden, beautiful, shining beacon of hope and he is so fierce and..." He shook his head. "I had failed back home, at anything I'd ever hoped to accomplish and... it was bad. Between us. I became the worst version of me I could become so I might get his attention and it made him lash out and... then suddenly, we were here. And we were together, and he was telling me he loved me." He shook his head. "I was terrified. I didn't believe it was real, for the longest time I didn't trust it."