-- You cannot hurt me. If you hurt me, I cannot stay. You know this.

[ eyes his knife hand; both in her wrist and with his heightened hearing he can tell her heart is pounding, nervous.

Even so, her voice remains relatively steady, pleading. ]

You don't have to do this. I've never given you reason to believe I would abandon you. You know I care for you. I've never run before. Dan Feng, think.