"No," Nina agreed, though she couldn't be sure. None of them could, but they'd all been given back a bit of their humanity, by the island. It was one gift they'd been given, after having so much taken away.

"I suppose it makes me sound like a bloody hypocrite," Nina admitted with a soft breath of laughter, "He was infected as much as George and I were. And I think he wants very much to... hold on to whatever scraps of goodness he can-- George. Annie. You. But I'm not sure he's prepared to give up the rest. He either doesn't know how, or he doesn't want to, but Sookie, it has nothing to do with you. You've done nothing wrong in wanting to see the good in him. Because it is there." But that made him no less dangerous. In fact, it did the very opposite.