"Yeah, I did," replies Yuri stubbornly. So maybe he didn't think about that all night, but even thinking about it for a little while is too much. He wonders sometimes if Natalie felt that way every time he visited her, and if biting him was just giving in to what the bear in her had always wanted to do.

He's determined not to listen to her -- nothing she can say can make this enough unlike what happened between him and Natalie for it to be okay. By the time she finishes speaking and looks up at him, though, he's looking directly at her, brow furrowed in a mixture of concern and regret. He frowns, not wanting to give in on this, but he can't help but ask, "...How'd they help you?"