( He has no idea how to fix this. Even Atlas has slipped beyond his fingertips. Isolated away from Max, of his own doing, and now he has hurt Anne as well. As I draw you into warmth you pull back into the cold, and you pull me with. Another person who tried to help him who he hurt, but at least Anne hasn't had Asteria playing through her memories and her mind. Anne, though, has been dragged into a horrible vision of the future, one without the people she wants around her.
What can he say? She's right. He is a waste of time, he hurts the people closest to him, the ones who try to help. He hurts the people he tries to help, as well. And the only solution he can grasp, the thing that he keeps thinking of, that seems like it would at least be a relief and give the people around him space to breathe, the Initiative has taken that away from him as well. Anne might not believe that there's any value in time being reversed, but Donny wishes they could not undo his own death, because he has been caught on that blade for a very long time. At least before there had always been the hope that if he died, Max would be safe, Asteria would lose interest; now there was nothing. There was no break, no release. )
I'm v-very sorry. ( For hurting her. For wasting her time. ) That wasn't-- ( That's not what a good friend should do. )
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What can he say? She's right. He is a waste of time, he hurts the people closest to him, the ones who try to help. He hurts the people he tries to help, as well. And the only solution he can grasp, the thing that he keeps thinking of, that seems like it would at least be a relief and give the people around him space to breathe, the Initiative has taken that away from him as well. Anne might not believe that there's any value in time being reversed, but Donny wishes they could not undo his own death, because he has been caught on that blade for a very long time. At least before there had always been the hope that if he died, Max would be safe, Asteria would lose interest; now there was nothing. There was no break, no release. )
I'm v-very sorry. ( For hurting her. For wasting her time. ) That wasn't-- ( That's not what a good friend should do. )