He visably tensed. His fist gripped her wrist and he tugged her to a stop. "And I apologised for that.. In the greenhouse, but if I have to again, I’m sorry - I was a child who knew no better. You're the smartest person I’ll ever know - apart from Theo maybe, how could I still believe you to be inferior?" His voice was like butter, it slid over each word as he murmured them to her, stilted in the forbidden forest.