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Pantaleimon didn't understand, couldn't wrap his brains around what Perry was trying to say. He still couldn't even figure out whether Perry really wanted Pan to be happy and misguidedly thought that being happy would be easiest without him, or if he was just looking for an excuse, if Perry had just had enough of Pan.

"Aren't you dedicated? I — You love me, right? That's all I want from you, so how - why do you think that's not enough?" Pantaleimon said with a frown. "I... Don't you want —" Pantaleimon swallowed difficultly, finding the words hard to say, "— me to play a part in your pups' lives? I mean, I... I know they wouldn't be really mine, but with the pups, it still feels sort of like they are, sort of. Is that too... Are you afraid I'll..." Pan wasn't sure how to explain. Maybe 'that I would be overbearing' was the best way to phrase it, but he couldn't get the words out of his gullet. Maybe because he didn't want to believe that maybe Perry was afraid of that. He just wanted everything to be okay again.