> Smile.
> "I've told you how many times now? I want to help you. The problem is that there were hrairfold many obstacles making that more or less impossible over the past minute, including you not trusting me to any real degree. Something I'll admit is not exactly unwarranted, given my behavior over the past 36 hours. But no one was going to get anywhere in anything with what was just going on. I realized after I fired that bolt off that I was trying to have it both ways again. I decided that if I really wanted this, I absolutely could not risk the well-being of two of the three people present here right now, no matter the cost. So I cast forward the one person I could risk, the person that mattered the least to me. Myself."