"She was trying to protect her heart. And my impulse wasn't to protect, Balthier. It was to try and still find belonging in a world that didn't need me anymore. A place I wasn't welcome."

And in the end it had only managed to do himself more harm. Seeking for a community and then being betrayed by the person he had looked up to. It was so fucking stupid.

"You don't find it pathetic? The way I shut myself down? Shut myself away?" I don't understand how you don't."