I didn't. I thought you might try to keep me here while you went after her.
[That's not happening. They'd have to magically bind here to keep her from following, and while she knows they could do that, she also knows they won't. More than anyone else in Hadriel, Lup and Taako understand the magnitude of what she's lost, and what a person has to do in response to that loss—that theft.
It doesn't matter that death isn't always the end here. She can't let herself think about that for more than a few seconds because if she lets herself hope and it doesn't happen, the pain will somehow be ten times worse than it is now.]
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[That's not happening. They'd have to magically bind here to keep her from following, and while she knows they could do that, she also knows they won't. More than anyone else in Hadriel, Lup and Taako understand the magnitude of what she's lost, and what a person has to do in response to that loss—that theft.
It doesn't matter that death isn't always the end here. She can't let herself think about that for more than a few seconds because if she lets herself hope and it doesn't happen, the pain will somehow be ten times worse than it is now.]
Let's go.