Himself, but More was a good way to put it.

His own knee-jerk reaction was to say he hadn't been doing much though. There was no active attempt on his part to try and change, so maybe he shouldn't be getting a whole ton of praise.

...Except that wasn't entirely true. I need some time to believe the rest of that, he'd said. That he was a person that deserved the care that people were trying to give him. He was trying. The people that somehow, inexplicably chose him deserved the effort.

"I'll... take your word for it. Means a lot."