And after a couple weeks - 

- Isabella?

Yeah?

You can make Elves stop existing now?

Yeah.

Please -

I - I -

I am expecting you to have a really good reason why you can't, yeah. This is the - sixth time?

I don't have a really good reason. I have a couple kinda mediocre reasons.

You'll be okay someday.

I won't.

How are you sure -

Got time, sometimes, to try to put myself together. If everything was set up so that I needed to be functional I - can. I never get to 'any instant of my life is tolerable in its own right'.

You had less than a Year sidereal all put together -

Ten, twenty times that subjectively. I - if you want me to just exist for twenty Years while you decide if I'm really not okay -

I want time to think of something, if there's anything -

Mmmhmmm.

I'm sorry.

Why are you avoiding me?

You flinched when I found you and I'm no longer your only source of experiences not designed expressly to fuck with your head. I can stop avoiding you if you want.

I told you what I want. I don't otherwise have preferences. If you're going to keep me alive you may as well get something out of it -

That's - really not why I don't want to kill you -

If I'd never said anything and I asked now -

-said anything about -

- even if we were only friends I wouldn't want to kill you, even if I'd never met you before I'd worry about everybody else reacting to me apparently being willing to kill Elves -

Sigh.