I'm still a student, really. Haven't graduated and all that. I've been stuck here, haven't I?

[And fighting a war.

The two words are simple but they make her glance over at him again, if only to offer a smile because trust is a hard thing to come by often enough, more so in this world, more so after the lives they've led (and she can guess at some of his, she feels that there is more understanding fueling his words than he lets on when they talk.]

Then I won't let you down.