"Home for me is dangerous with it," Nick nodded in agreement. "If I find myself back there, I'm not sure if I'd be able to come back to the Nexus, and there's a good chance I wouldn't be fit to be around humans if I did."

It was the fear that kept him up nights; well, the night's Melanie wasn't staying with him, anyway. Her solid presence had a way of keeping the dark-of-night worry at the door.