[As things are now, if he were with her, he'd have to protect her, which would snare his attention. She's brave and fierce but untutored. The truth is that they're both safer if she isn't with him, at least when he's doing anything like he'd done on the harder days in the Watch and she has no dragon under her, but she won't hear it.
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He attempts a jest, a flirtation with her.]
No. I think you'd tire of me.