“You won’t make it far in this world without a little help, Handy.” She halted. “How long would it have taken you to swallow your pride and let somegriffon look at your arm had I not made you?” He didn’t answer. “I thought I could be like that, sort through all of life’s difficulties on my own, without anygriffon’s help. All that did was put the one griffon I care about most in the world into the claws of a beast, using her as leverage to control me.”