I hate being frightened of things. I'm not someone who can say: "Oh, I'm scared of flying, I won't fly. " Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there's something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it.
Saving her life was the one acceptable thing I'd done since I met her. The one thing that I was not ashamed of. The one and only thing that made me glad I existed at all. I'd been fighting to keep her alive since the first moment I'd caught her scent.