[Archer stiffens at that. Something about it is striking him as wrong, but he's not entirely sure what it is.]
Don't talk like that. I don't want you dead. I did at first because I...
[...because he was scared. Because he was scared and confused and hurt and didn't know how to deal with it. But he can't say any of that, so he simply trails off and switches topics.]
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Don't talk like that. I don't want you dead. I did at first because I...
[...because he was scared. Because he was scared and confused and hurt and didn't know how to deal with it. But he can't say any of that, so he simply trails off and switches topics.]
Regardless, I don't want you dead now.