Her trying to get loose is not actually helping under these exact circumstances, as attractive as it might be on other ones.

Keltham is pretty sure that his gendertrope is not going to get anything out of this, and worries that he's about make a drastically wrong move for himself and damage something, but - if she's all right, after this - then some part of himself will have learned something it needs to learn.

He'd tell her to stab him with an illusionary blade, if that was what it took for them to stay together, or if it might fix something inside himself that was broken.

Probably.

...delaying this is doing nothing but causing him pain.

Her trying to get loose is not actually helping under these exact circumstances, as attractive as it might be under other ones.

Keltham is pretty sure that his gendertrope is not going to get anything out of this, and worries that he's about make a drastically wrong move for himself and damage something, but - if she's all right, after this - then some part of himself will have learned something it needs to learn.

He'd tell her to stab him with an illusionary blade, if that was what it took for them to stay together, or if it might fix something inside himself that was broken.

Probably.

...delaying this is doing nothing but causing him pain.

Her trying to get loose is not actually helping under these exact circumstances, as attractive as it might be under other ones.

Keltham is pretty sure that his gendertrope is not going to get anything out of this, and worries that he's about to make a drastically wrong move for himself and damage something, but - if she's all right, after this - then some part of himself will have learned something it needs to learn.

He'd tell her to stab him with an illusionary blade, if that was what it took for them to stay together, or if it might fix something inside himself that was broken.

Probably.

...delaying this is doing nothing but causing him pain.