Empty reassurances could only go so far to relieve a troubled mind, since they offered no reasoning with which to dispel the fears.
Instead, he had chosen to give it shape. The threat he had chosen to tell her about was a relatively mundane one in terms of the range of possibilities that he had thought of. A snake was a known danger, but not one that seemed particularly impossible to deal with. If one was careful, one could dodge or remove the snake.
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