I know you don't... I just need to have some better self control, seriosuly. Not just in how I act but how I think. [he was determined next time to make himself think about something else and not worry about her...if he could do that, it'd make leaving her along much easier]

[hed take her to the place he'd seen earlier, and buy her whatever tea and cake she liked. After that it'd be pretty late and time to call it a night. The next night she went out, Thash decided to do something useful and tried to make some business connections with local restaurant owners...see which ones might be interested in buying fish from him while they were docked there. It kept him suitably distracted and he didn't go to check up on Faye]