Kate listens, hearing the words and feeling the emotion behind them. She's not surprised when he gets to slave traders. Not at all.

She's ashamed. Because she'd suspected it and forgot. Forgot that he's young and she'd been feeling protective of him and then she went and pushed him like that. Cheeks warm, she drops his gaze and looks away. She can't help thinking about the Abnormals she'd sold into slavery, and it takes all she's got not to pull back from him.

"I'm sorry. For that and for whatever I did that...triggered it for you."