Today David doesn't have it in him to push, to demand, to explain that without that openness and giving two ways he can't even begin to do this long term.

It's the fatigue and the pain and the recognizing genuine fear and grief. For now he can do only so much so he lets it go and his question is out there. The words Balthier says, so quick, makes him laugh, bitterly.

"You have more faith in me than I do. I think... I think maybe I'm not. You can't even imagine all the various paths of my life I have seen. All the darkness. I think I'm predisposed toward it. That light you praise me for? It distanced me from people. It makes me harsher. I assume people need my guidance. Just look at what I did to Josh. Any of the things I've caused to befall him, in many different realities and lifetimes."