What make-believe? What fairy tales? Life was hard and horrible and dark and unfair, but here he saw a world he'd never given the slightest chance to exist. Here was warmth, here was trust, a true connection, faith, and it filled him to the brim with satisfaction. He would want nothing if he could keep this for the rest of his worldly existence. How silly, how small he had been before she opened his mind! The universe was an empty place without her love. It came more naturally than his most basic programming. Anything was well worth giving up for this.