"I wouldn't have fallen off," Theon answers, "not then. It's because we're safe now. They told me about it, when I was in the hospital." He hadn't really understood it until later, all of it too far removed and out of his experiences.

The corners of his mouth tick up, and his expression unguarded, warm as he watches Daryl.

"You came to help people," he agrees. "I would have--" He doesn't want to say it, not now.