"Last night, after things got hairy...you know. Fight like that, you grab for anything you can, right? Use whatever's at hand. And one of the things I used...uh. Was you. I raised your body as a zombie, and. Used you to help me take out the scrap riding Jeff, because he was focused on me and not whatever else was around him. I'm sorry, I know that's not...right, to just raise people like that. It's not going to mean anything in the long run, you're not tied to me, and I really wish I could promise I'm never going to need to do that again."

And he physically braces for an angry reaction.