User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 253: Tartaros arc: Silver Memories, Review/@comment-180.191.134.209-20151003160357/@comment-2214433-20151004151033

He tried to play the role of Deliora well enough so that Gray would believe it. And I think the anime did a great job at portraying Silver's fear when Gray started doing Iced Shell, because it was clearly fear for Gray, not for himself.