[Being on the beach, explaining the world, those don't matter in the face of the mistake. His mistake. Of what he'd failed to do. Why does no one ever understand that? Why does everyone keep excusing his failures like this?]
I should have - you needed me. But I was just - I just stood there. I couldn't go down there.
[Shiro that... isn't what happened here. It's not what happened in Trench. It's the Pit. It's the echoing emptiness underneath his feet, the gaping hole in the road reaching up to pull everyone down, to drown the people he cares about. He can hear it. He swears he can ear it in his ears. The dull, hollow screams and the roar of hollow space - the roar of a beast.]
[Keith's apologizing again. He wants to tell him not to. Wants to tell him he's done nothing wrong.]
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[Being on the beach, explaining the world, those don't matter in the face of the mistake. His mistake. Of what he'd failed to do. Why does no one ever understand that? Why does everyone keep excusing his failures like this?]
I should have - you needed me. But I was just - I just stood there. I couldn't go down there.
[Shiro that... isn't what happened here. It's not what happened in Trench. It's the Pit. It's the echoing emptiness underneath his feet, the gaping hole in the road reaching up to pull everyone down, to drown the people he cares about. He can hear it. He swears he can ear it in his ears. The dull, hollow screams and the roar of hollow space - the roar of a beast.]
[Keith's apologizing again. He wants to tell him not to. Wants to tell him he's done nothing wrong.]
It - should have been me...