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[stillnot]

[ she thinks he's right about that... she's only half motivated by guilt, though. ]

Yeah. I might just be being selfish.

[exercisms]

Maybe.

[Wow!]

Sometimes, it would be easier to know that you're the only one that's hurting, right? If you could take that for yourself, so no one else had to be hurt. . . even if that isn't what they would want. . .

There's a kind of selfishness that's kind.

[stillnot]

That's an interesting way of looking at it. Don't know if I ever thought about it like that.

[ but it does line up with parts of how she'd felt? maybe not all of it, but still. ]

... People were going to end up hurt no matter what. I think I just... Didn't want to be the last one left, again. Even if it was temporary.

[exercisms]

Mm. Though if you were over there, I think it would've been hard, too. There'd be less you could do to help everyone.

. . . But for me, it was good to be able not to worry as much.