"This is all that's left."

She looks away so he can't see the hurt in her eyes. There's no pleasure to be had in throwing barbs at him, even if that one seems to have hit.

She'd wanted more, too. But her time had been running out faster than his, and she hadn't wanted to doom everyone else along with her. It had been simple mathematics even before someone had offered a scenario in which she maybe got to live.

"I was trying to buy us time. I'm sorry I wasn't ready to watch the world burn."