"Oh...you don't have to get up," Abel shifts himself, sitting up a little, looking up at him. "We can talk about it later, just...the more he tells me about his life, and what happened, I think he believes he has no other purpose than dying in service."

He can understand that, because that's what he'd been prepared to do until he'd found out about the project.

"I...I used to think that way, before everything fell apart, but It isn't just my story now. It's ours. But I won't if you don't want me to."