...but we don't have to be.

[Oh well, there go the claws sinking in as he holds his own elbow in a vice. He sounds a little small, not quite confident in his own words.]

Just... just 'cause they said we will doesn't mean we have to. Just knowing how it ends makes the ending change.

[...there's a small pause.]

And, I don't know. Maybe we don't have to lose the good along with the bad.