[...Damnit. Or he could fail utterly and make things worse.]

[As much as he's not really up to this, he's even less up to having one of the three remaining people he gets along with, and the one he's known the longest and best, decide to cut him out.]

[So he's getting up and following, even if he's going to be talking to her back for a while.] I'm sorry.

I - knew there were others last week hit, and knew enough to know it'd have hit you, too, I just...