putting fear beside him, he trusts in beauty blind

There's no ceremony to it. He's not the Aegis, and he never will be - convenient, his paralleled story, but no more. For him to look at, and him alone, because no one else really cares.

When he looks at his Driver with wounded eyes, confusion at the consternation is all he's shown.

"You might think it's stupid, coming from me to you, but...what if I'm not good enough?"

"What if?" Addam repeats.

"But what would you have me do, Addam? My prince?"

"Not a thing, my love. I never meant that it should hurt for you to love me."