[There's a long pause as he absorbs her words, trying to grasp the magnitude of what she would have to do.

He wasn't foolish. He knew that kind of pain made trust difficult. The kind of cruelty she had hinted her world treated people like her with.... it was sickening. Horrifying. If he had any choice in the matter, he had long ago decided he had wanted to take her home with him, rather then let her return to such a place.

But....]

I understand, to a degree. I don't know what it was like for you, so i cannot say I understand completely but... Such an act... to forgive such things.... it is difficult.

But I don't think it beyond you. You are a person who deserves happiness, and I think maybe, if you let the past rest, forgive but not forget... I think maybe you could be happier, here. It doesn't make what they did right, certainly. It never will. but not every human is cruel like those of your world, either. Especially in a place like Luceti.

[He's not sure if his words will help, or simply sound childish... but that is what he feels.]