"You... weren't always human." She says it slowly, like she's worried she sounds crazy, and at the same time more than a little scared that it's not true. Because if he's not human, if he's something more, then maybe he can see something more, and maybe what he sees in her is real?

She's scared again, but now she's scared that she's wrong, that Cole isn't what she thinks he is. She would love to be strong, to be able to take care of herself, to not be The Burden she's been raised to believe that she is, the drain on her family, useless in almost every way and in their debt for her very existence. She wants to be good enough, all on her own, it's all she's ever wanted. To just be good enough all on her own.