"Do you have anywhere safe to go?" Matthias asks. "You could come to my apartment." The words are out of his mouth before he has time to think on them. Instinctively he reacts to someone in danger with an offer to safeguard them, but the thought of housing the closest thing to a Grisha he has seen here in Darrow fights against everything he's been taught since childhood.

Still, he doesn't take it back.

The Antari is weak and bleeding, and it doesn't feel right just to leave him if there are others still after him. He hadn't abandoned Nina, and even though she betrayed him, he still isn't convinced, not really, that he made the wrong choice back then.