[rather patiently, because charles knows a storm when he hears it,]

You are putting defenses for what are, ultimately, automatic functions your body has been born with in order to help it survive, and are therefore unnecessary. Emotions are not useless appendages you can discard with as you please. Stop being a child about this, Erik.

And I insist on that modicum of kindness you deny, because not granting it exists in you means that friendship between the two of us isn't possible either. Do you deny that? If you can help Sean, you can most certainly help others as well.