[Wash's explanation doesn't initially sink in for Pietro, and he doesn't understand it, how having a word would help him let go or ensure more trust. They're concepts that seem too oppositional for him to make sense of, not without taking the time to think it through, which he's disinclined to do. Twisting the rope through his fingers more tightly, what he does consider is choosing simply because he thinks it would be pointless. That he wouldn't use that word until he's too far gone to remember it as he's said, and then there wouldn't be a stopping point, if they establish "no" and "stop" don't mean that. And maybe that's what Wash wants him to get out of this, maybe it's something completely different, but it's what Pietro latches on to, fingers starting to shake more.]
I am not... ready for that.
[He looks away as he says it, like admitting to some other limitation he hadn't thought about. He can't give up that much control, not now, not yet.]
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I am not... ready for that.
[He looks away as he says it, like admitting to some other limitation he hadn't thought about. He can't give up that much control, not now, not yet.]