If that's how you want to begin. [Honestly to him, it sounds a little blunt, but it's not his story to tell.] Long as it helps to ease your terrors, I don't care how you spin it to her.

[Though that next question has him tapping a nail on his wrist.] Really, haven't I already said why? [He counts it off, ticking on his fingers as he goes.] You've had a traumatic past. It gives you nightmares. When you have them, you wake up screaming bloody murder in the middle of the night or you come find me and wake me up anyway. All in all, it does neither of us any good for you to carry on like this and it doesn't help your reason for being.