Of course Adam knows nothing about what he saw of Derek. Again, there weren't even really situations he could understand. Just jumpy flashes of images - and a lot of them, too many for him to make sense of outside of the startling image of Derek's shift from man to something else. Those red eyes and teeth and claws. Adam saw that loud and clear. But then he's been hard-wired to spot threats since he was kid. And then there was the image of Derek chained up - more than once, it looks like. At least he thinks that's what he saw.

For a moment Adam's features soften a bit, because he can understand something being so much a part of you that it's not a separate thing entirely. Cabeswater was taken from him after all, the one thing besides Ronan that protected Adam. But then Derek goes into another explanation that has Adam on edge again. If they took that beast from Derek, shouldn't that be a good thing? In the end, Adam doesn't do well with confrontation so he stays silent. Of course this is his fault. He started it by barreling in without thinking... which he usually wouldn't do except, he's been trying to be braver than he was. It was stupid, really, to initiate contact with someone who usually has sharp teeth and claws.

At mention of Ronan, Derek has Adam's attention. He never really meets his gaze because all of his bluster from before is deflating into 'holy crap what am I doing' and 'stranger danger'. But he pays attention, because it has to do with Ronan. Derek knows Ronan. Adam wonders if Ronan knows what Derek is. Does Adam even really know what he is? No. He wants to tell him to stay away from Ronan, but he isn't that brave in the moment.

He leans in and whispers after a glance around the room to see if anyone was close enough to hear him. No one is. "I saw you chained up. I saw your eyes glow red and there were fights and... your face. Maybe people were hunting you, I don't know. I couldn't tell. There were a lot of images, no words, really."