She expects a more dramatic answer, but the more she learns about his past, the more she's beginning to think that's about the most dramatic thing he could have done. It brings a small smile to her face, easing the tension in her shoulders a little. She's trusted that he's a good person because Raven knows she's good at reading people, but hearing him say that he tried to leave that kind of life does reassure her.

She doesn't know what series of events led to his friend being killed at his hand, but she feels better knowing it hadn't been a malicious killing as ordered by his mother.

"Pretty brave of you," she murmurs against his lips after he kisses her back, a slow smile dragging at her lips. There's no tension in him this time, and Raven curls her fingers into his, her other hand moving around the curve of his neck. She kisses him again, drawing him closer as she leans back into the couch. Speaking doesn't ever seem to reassure him all that much, so Raven intends to prove that she trusts him in other ways.