[Nods to the first bit, but oh gosh Willow. Willow no. If she was a troll, that sad little admission would've given him quite a number of Pale Feelings. As it is, he just gets this weird tangle of OH GOD HOW PITIABLE BUT SHE'S AN ALIEN. He honestly kind of envies her for even being able to say such a thing like it might come true somehow. He is so used to violence, so used to people getting hurt, and he knows that even if the revolution had succeeded, he never would've lived to see a world where Not Getting Hurt was a possibility, much less a fact]

[Reaches over and... touches her shoulder after a second, not sure what to do with her all of a sudden...]

I do not know about anyone else, but you have uh, done more to keep me from hurting... then anyone else I've ever met. So maybe it is a good kind of naive. If it lets you, help people so willingly...