That's... not what David was expecting. He thought that the explanation, the justification, would make Balthier understand. That sometimes people guarded their own hearts and that's not a bad thing for them to do, though it would be better that they didn't hurt someone in the process.

"I did, though. Turn to stone. It took others to open me up again. And... sometimes they betrayed me too. I started to think maybe it wasn't my place to be loved. That trying would just find me punished again. I... was learning to be better until recently."