[Ok. Alright. This is already very bad. She shouldn't have moved, she should have stayed put, maybe given him more space, even, because she could see--between all the anger--that she frightened him just there, just a little.

Somehow that's worse than anything else. He can be angry and fight and scream, but she can't watch him freeze up like that again. She's seen Taako come out of a lot of bad situations if not unscathed then at least alive enough to make some snarky comment and carry on. Seen him force his way through every situation on sheer 'fuck no' alone. And he's...afraid she might do something to him now. She made him feel that way.

It's a pain that throbs in her chest and makes her want to collapse in on herself. Enough that if he raised that Umbrella to her now she's not sure she'd do anything to defend herself. She doesn't want to fight him. She doesn't want to hurt him anymore, she never did. None of it was supposed to be like this.]

I--I know, Taako. I know what I did. Believe me when I say that I only did what I thought was right. I know it was horrible in a lot of ways, but it was supposed to fix things. We were destroying that world, and I wanted to save it. I wanted to save all of you. From the guilt, from everything. I thought I could do it alone. It was always supposed to be temporary.

[She's got her hands up now, so he can see her open palms, but otherwise she doesn't move. She won't move again, regardless of what happens.]

I never meant to take anything from you for as long as I did. I'm--please know I mean this--I am so, so sorry, Taako. I'm sorry.