...Only two of us were able to leave the room, after it started burning. [And there were not two of them, though he doesn't say who was with them.] I thought--it seemed like my seal was working again, so I told her to go. I wouldn't have died. [Well. He's not confident about that at all, actually, and he'd been kind of terrified--more that he'd condemned Lavi to burn with him than for himself, even. But he doesn't say that either.] But she came back.
[And it had stung to see it, even though she'd only made the same choice he had. Even if it's not his job, even if he's made it abundantly clear that he isn't a protector or a hero, it still feels a little like failing her.]
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...Only two of us were able to leave the room, after it started burning. [And there were not two of them, though he doesn't say who was with them.] I thought--it seemed like my seal was working again, so I told her to go. I wouldn't have died. [Well. He's not confident about that at all, actually, and he'd been kind of terrified--more that he'd condemned Lavi to burn with him than for himself, even. But he doesn't say that either.] But she came back.
[And it had stung to see it, even though she'd only made the same choice he had. Even if it's not his job, even if he's made it abundantly clear that he isn't a protector or a hero, it still feels a little like failing her.]