[He walks with Ronan, toward home. Aspen follows along behind them, cheerfully oblivious to anything that happened, to any tension or discomfort there might be. The life of a dog is a good one.]

Hopefully there won't be a next time.

[At least, Adam really hopes he never again has to murder an identical clone of himself who seems to be evil. One is more than enough, twice would just be ridiculous.

He sort of hopes he never has to shoot someone again, but it's not a realistic hope. He's already had people shoot at him, who knows what they'll need to do when the next time something like this happens? It simply isn't practical to think that he'll never have to do anything like that again.

But Ronan seems - well, not okay with it, not exactly. But he wouldn't lie, and he doesn't seem to want to distance himself. Maybe it'll be all right.]

I think I'm just grateful I didn't accidentally make you pull something really weird out.