"I dimmed my flames and lowered my heat every time I got closer to you," Strange points out. "If I wasn't confident enough in my ability to do that, I wouldn't have done so and wouldn't have let you pick me up. And truth be told, I only got the idea to let you pick me up when you tried to pet me."

Which is the thing that Strange just keeps going back to because there's really no way around it, Yuya tried to pet fire.