[Christopher, this is not at all cool, okay? Stop acting like it is!]

Because I don't want to take it that far, Christopher. I don't want anything bad to happen to my friends ever again. Whether it's real, or imagined, or...or whatever!

[And because, no matter how much he wishes he could, he won't always be able to protect them. And he definitely can't...when he's not even there. Asbel's heard the whole time-stop theory, but it's nearly impossible to imagine that while he's sitting here having a conversation, "nothing" is occurring back on Ephinea. Somehow it is. Or would be.]

I couldn't stand to lose even one of them.