From himself, mostly. He is delicate; suggestible, emotionally manipulable. He comes into contact with the wrong person and they'll use what he can do against him. And that's what he did--stood out and told a whole ship full of strangers about his abilities.

It's not only up to me to protect him from that, but to protect everyone else from him--though he'd say I was interfering where I don't belong. He doesn't understand my responsibilities toward him, as his older brother.

[ Pause. ]

You got any siblings? Maybe someone you consider yourself responsible for?