"You're totally a recluse." Garrot deftly ignores the question about his children. Offering them up sounds wrong, and it doesn't make his plan any less nerve-wracking. So he'll dig into something else!

"You live in the woods. Alone." He huffs a bit. "Isn't it normal for you?" But honestly, Gyre's go-ahead was enough encouragement. This could work. So he pivots back to his own secret, his emotions visibly straining against his face.

"I don't.... I don't really see what else I could tell him." He sighs, clearly lapsing back into a moment of burnt out exhaustion. Then a moment later, he's buried it again! "Unless... I talk about how I've been spending years developing treatments for the people fighting monsters?"

He sounds unsure. It's not really a secret or emotional leverage as a stated thing he has done that is pro-Protector. And that might not be enough.