He sighs and presses his face to Crow's neck, greedily soaking in the love like a cat in a sunbeam. He's giving just as much love back, it's less calm than it was when Crow got here, still pretty frazzled, but no less intense and sincere. And calmer by far than a few minutes ago.

"I definitely want to know now ... but before that I want to clear something up. Earlier I really did upset you. I hurt you badly too.

I don't want to ignore that just because I got scared." No matter how legitimate his meltdown he's not going to gloss over Crow"s also legitimate hurt.