"How do you know what anyone feels? How can you judge? Sometimes, the way people are towards others has nothing to do with you and everything to do with something entirely unrelated.

"And what's number one anyhow? What does that mean to you?"

Because when it came down to it, Amber and Fiyero and even Nor aside, no one could quite break him like Ino.

No one.

Which almost logically brought him to the second point.

He breathed out.

"Sometimes, only sometimes, and... not when it comes to how you treat me, mind, just..."

He didn't want to say this.

"You remind me of my mother."