There's no doubt of that. It has nothing to do with how much you consciously trust another person. It's an instinct, a purely primal reaction that doesn't give a damn what your feelings are.

[Lust pauses, thinking once more. It all makes a great deal of sense, Heather's reactions, and she understands why they're difficult to determine how to proceed with correcting.]

What about you taking physical control? I don't mean in a traditional sense, I simply mean...perhaps it would help if you were physically directing him. If you understand my meaning.

It's only that having physical control, or the impression of it, can go a long way to soothing those instincts.