"Please," Ibani says. "I've been awake for, ah, about three days now."

She gently takes his hand. "I wouldn't trust anyone else to help me like that, you know. I've had it hammered into me for too long that being vulnerable is dangerous."

He could do much worse to her than KILL her, if he were a different kind of person.

"Does my room here work for you?" Unless he wants her to use his room!