"Tell me. Do you trust everything to stay this peaceful. Sure, we may not be attacked right now, we may be safe, but I am alert because I want it to remain this way. For now at least."

He doesn't know how to explain alert to her. That he was eyes and ears open with a readiness to attack anyone that tried to hurt him. Polaris hadn't been as bad as the Manor for him, but he was not expecting the death blow to the Mother of the Invention to come so swiftly and easy.

He just wanted no one to touch him right now. No one to even try and his voice sounds reluctant to express that, "It means I am ready for anything, no matter what it may be."