Then, maybe that's something we can start with. Instead of telling him that that's something you don't want him to do, we can figure out why he's doing it and what we can do to make him feel... safe, if scared is genuinely what he's feeling?

I know this doesn't help the immediate problem at hand, but... if stuff like this keeps happening, Wolfwood, I fear things won't mend between the two of you one of these times.