[ That gets a raised eyebrow from Shiro. Keith is asking a legitimate question, he supposes, but the idea is still a little bit odd to him. ]

No. I don't think probability has entered some strange conspiracy in which the choice that hurts someone I care about is always cosmically better.

[ Not that he'd entirely put it past the universe to do that to him. It seems just in line with how his life has been going. ]

My choice to go on the Kerberos mission wasn't for the greater good either, it was for myself only.