"They did not understand...I could not blame them, for casting me aside as they did. I am so different...they did not know what to make of me, when they found me in these woods. They never have understood. I have tried to be like them, tried to make sense of it all..."

He shakes his head, shifts his hips towards her touch.

"I am grateful you are willing to take on such a...being as myself, as a student."