"I'd have to know why, to properly voice my feelings of it. But at the baseline of not knowing your reasons - glad you were safe from the mind-reading you hate and the knife that's nightmares incarnate. Worried about the why, I'd be hoping you thought it through. Concerned about the moral implications of - any sort of relationship, because in this situation you didn't get to talk to me about it before the love thing." He trails off, and then a stab of guilt tells him he's not saying everything.

He grimaces at the guilt, and then sighs, "Also - to my shame, happy. Because then you'd - feel the same way about me."

Aldaras looks genuinely upset with himself about this fact.