"Think it's the reasoning that makes something stupid, not the risk. Me? I like risk. I like excitement. So it's not stupid to go looking for danger. Just reckless." Which was clearly much preferable. He stepped closer to Jonathan, easily sensing that he had more experience. That he wasn't as nervous and most likely had less to lose.

"There'd still be passion, wouldn't there be? If you--" He reached for Jonathan's hands and moved them up to his throat while he looked at him. "--did this. If you strangled me like that, we'd still have passion, eh?"

He lowered his own hands, only to put them against Jonathan's chest. "Still a reason for your heart to be faster. Proves that we're alive right now. I'd rather die than never live."