" I am afraid, too.”

That is not what I expected him to say. “Why are you afraid?”

“The same reasons you are, I imagine. I worry you will hate me and we will struggle again. I worry about the kit we will make. I worry if anything happens to it, it will destroy what we have again.” He kisses my cheek. “But I do know that I am more afraid of not trying. "

― Ruby Dixon , Barbarian's Hope (Ice Planet Barbarians, #11)