"Love, if you don't want it, then it won't come to pass. And weighing ending one life to save a town is not the same as genocide."

Where the line between them was, he didn't know.

"Thunderclap didn't want to let Nolan try," he says. Quieter. This part is harder. It's raw and it hurts and the other voices get louder as he prods at the fresh memory. "But you didn't want him to hurt me. I know how hard it was to assert control over the avatars, David. You were being protective."