At first, 'cause I wanted to keep an eye on him. I didn't want him trying anything... and, also, because he's a really smart guy. I thought we might be able to figure out something, even as much as I didn't like him.

[Looking back on this feels odd, after it's been so long.]

But he kept doing things... trying to be helpful. Piggybacking me up stairs when I was exhausted.

One time, he tried to get to another section of Haven to get supplies for us-- alone, of course, into a tunnel of monsters. I ran after him before he could get himself killed and got hurt and then he avoided me for ages because he felt like I got pulled into his bad luck.

I kept getting all these opportunities to see what he was like. Without the island or the mutual killing in the picture.