- nod.
"I don't - know what to say. What I did to you was awful. I loved you, and I used that to hurt you, and I wouldn't forgive me, if I was you. I do want you to forgive me. I think when I made the plan to buy the souls back, to get the Wishes, one of the things I was hoping was that you could forgive me, if I could fix it, but even if not for the babies, I couldn't really have fixed it. I could say that they'd have sent me to Hell to be tortured eternally, if I'd done anything different, that I was being mind-read near constantly, that Abrogail would tease me about things she'd read in the transcripts she was having read of my thoughts, that I was only half-there, only half-thinking, my entire life until the moment in my bedroom where I realized that probably no one was reading my mind -
- but I don't know. I want to have higher standards than that, I guess. It wasn't literally an unsolvable problem.
I don't need you to forgive me. I don't need you to be angry with me, or not be angry with me, or forgive me, or not forgive me, or hurt me, or not hurt me. I just need us to save the world. Whatever - whatever you need from me, to do that, to make sure that this stupid stupid awful thing doesn't cost everyone everything - you have it, of me, forever, if necessary. And I'm sorry."