It is probably better that he not be told a lot of it.

She does tell him the story of how she found a sick bird she wanted to nurse back to health, and how her older brother found the bird and slowly tore it to bits, living, while Ione watched, and how that was the last time Ione let herself care about anything, because she understood that anything she let herself care about would be used as a weapon to hurt her.

It is probably better that he not be told most of it.

She does tell him the story of how she found a sick bird she wanted to nurse back to health, and how her older brother found the bird and slowly tore it to bits, living, while Ione watched, and how that was the last time Ione let herself care about anything, because she understood that anything she let herself care about would be used as a weapon to hurt her.