[There's another long, weighty pause. It's not that it's an unhelpful answer—more that even some of the things Yuri wants to do leave a knot of unease in his chest, or an icy frost of fear down his spine.]

...It's... I am doing that. I'm trying to. You know there's a lot I'm doing to try to make things better or safer, but it's still frightening. [He takes another bite of the bun and mutters around the mouthful.] Just not as scary as doing nothing.