[The candy may have boosted his feelings, but it's done nothing to keep him from shoving more personal things deep. From putting them aside. If nothing else, it just makes it easier to do. Because -- does he regret that decision? So long ago now? Does he regret shoving his friend aside, taking his place? Stepping forward into the horror and bloodshed waiting for them?]
[The answer is no. Because Matt is alive. But not everyone gets that kind of payoff, do they?]
That would make a difference. Seeing everything that could have happened. Instead of only what did.
I wondered
For a long time, I wondered if it was the right thing to do. If I made the right call. Now I... now I have someone here to tell me it was. I got lucky, that way.
[... and if he hadn't made the call, would he have found the others? Gotten back to Earth, met these incredible teens? Met Allura? Or been able to feel the presence in the cockpit of the Black Lion? That incredible swell of partnership there.]
Family
It seems like it always comes back to that, in the end, huh?
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[The candy may have boosted his feelings, but it's done nothing to keep him from shoving more personal things deep. From putting them aside. If nothing else, it just makes it easier to do. Because -- does he regret that decision? So long ago now? Does he regret shoving his friend aside, taking his place? Stepping forward into the horror and bloodshed waiting for them?]
[The answer is no. Because Matt is alive. But not everyone gets that kind of payoff, do they?]
That would make a difference. Seeing everything that could have happened. Instead of only what did.
I wondered
For a long time, I wondered if it was the right thing to do. If I made the right call. Now I... now I have someone here to tell me it was. I got lucky, that way.
[... and if he hadn't made the call, would he have found the others? Gotten back to Earth, met these incredible teens? Met Allura? Or been able to feel the presence in the cockpit of the Black Lion? That incredible swell of partnership there.]
Family
It seems like it always comes back to that, in the end, huh?