[listen. she's not convinced it will work. but she's convinced enough it could work that she'd rather try for that than simply try to focus on surviving. he might have different priorities than she does, but it's the same basic idea.]
You can trust me on that. Please do. [because for him, quite obviously, the alternative is giving up, and even a bad plan is more likely to succeed than that.]
Yes. In contrast, being sacrificed to resurrect a god might be quite easy. You don't really have to do much of anything other than stand around and wait to die.
[but she's not so sure of that. quite a few of you seem fine with the idea of dying.]
You seemed awfully ready to throw her to the wolves. [maybe that's cruel to say, but she's blunt as ever, meaning no malice to it. it just was something she noticed, and found odd - their disagreements, how fast he was to insist there was no other way forward except to sacrifice ash.]
Robin... made it a little easier, but before that, I was worried that we would... have a more uncomfortable discussion about what to do, because of Ashlyn's partner.
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You can trust me on that. Please do. [because for him, quite obviously, the alternative is giving up, and even a bad plan is more likely to succeed than that.]
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But we've been... trying not to.
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[...]
And then speaking of plans, there's... there's Ashlyn.
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[but she's not so sure of that. quite a few of you seem fine with the idea of dying.]
You seemed awfully ready to throw her to the wolves. [maybe that's cruel to say, but she's blunt as ever, meaning no malice to it. it just was something she noticed, and found odd - their disagreements, how fast he was to insist there was no other way forward except to sacrifice ash.]
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[he starts to finish that sentence, stops, shakes his head a little, emotions turbulent. a little guilt, a little frustration.]
I can't... I can't explain why, beyond saying that Asa was wrong. But I don't want Ashlyn to die. I just didn't want...
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[hmmm.]
So you wanted to be firm because you were afraid we would hesitate to sacrifice her partner, and you thought it might need to be done anyway.
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[a hesitant nod.]
But I would never do that without having a good reason for my feelings, even if... I can't say what it is.
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[she does; it's clear something else was going on there.]