[Gaius is a sweet person who doesn't deserve to be here. Not that Rean deserves it either but he's really messed up about everything right now. So much so that even his aversion to touch isn't really enough to keep him from leaning right onto Gaius, starved for any kind of positive anything.

He's not coherent enough right now to even wonder if that promise is going to bite Gaius in the ass. He's just pathetically grateful to be looked at like a person right now, let alone being treated kindly or told that at least for today he's not going to have a repeat experience.]