[ Terry might have calmed down, but Kido can't, because it's only been a handful of minutes for her that she'd been kneeling on the asphalt staring up at the barrel of a gun. She's still suffering and it's still hard and she's still scared and furious and shaking.
She had died once, in the dungeon, burning and suffocating, and she'd woken up from that. A second time, when her house blew up and collapsed in flames around her, and she had stood back up. A third, gunshot to the heart, gunshot to the head, but she's still here, isn't she? ]
I'm going back.
[ She pushes herself up from the bed, but it's her left side that she leans her weight on and her shoulder gives, and she crashes back down onto the mattress, and tries again. ]
I'm not— I can't let everybody die! He's not going to take everybody from me again!
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She had died once, in the dungeon, burning and suffocating, and she'd woken up from that. A second time, when her house blew up and collapsed in flames around her, and she had stood back up. A third, gunshot to the heart, gunshot to the head, but she's still here, isn't she? ]
I'm going back.
[ She pushes herself up from the bed, but it's her left side that she leans her weight on and her shoulder gives, and she crashes back down onto the mattress, and tries again. ]
I'm not— I can't let everybody die! He's not going to take everybody from me again!