"I do not wish to impose upon you, in any way," Teja says. "Are assume things, one way or another. My people, my world: - the believed that once touched or once broken is forever shamed, a door once unhinged shall forever be open. It was a belief I found myself having to question, so I might go fighting, and becoming what was needed in the end."

Teja would not think that Pyrrha is trying to curry his favour, by her offer: - the only thing about her he does distrust is the way she perfectly mirrors his own darkness in a modern small-g goth way. The way she is easy to speak with, easy to understand, and easily gets underneath all his defences. He is used to some antagonism in opinion from all he meets.