He shouldn't have had to choose! I screwed up. I ... did something to drop off the map for millions of years...

[I blame me.]

[I'm afraid for us.]

[Because if Pax wouldn't willingly give him up, but he'd been missing anyway... what had he done? What had happened?]

[It probably shows on his face -- all the indecision and confusion. He doesn't want not to be around his friend. He wants things to be close as possible to how they were, and...]

[He sort of sits down, right where he was standing, looking down at his hands and feet.]

... I'm tired of avoiding you. It's not right. I don't... know what to do. I did something to lose you once...

What if I do it here?