As if these are problems one could simply talk out.
I fed upon you like an animal, Evangeline. What good would "working on it" be?

[He's... gonna scoot a little closer, if she'll let him.
He just wants to be close. That's all he wants.
He doesn't dare ask for anything else.]

... I'm not known for attacking without reason, however. You're right about that.
For now.

There's no saying I won't someday hallucinate something so awful that I act upon it. Orange magicians are ostracized for a reason.