I'm sorry you've had to experience those kind of nightmares, too. [His voice is only getting shakier.] If I had just been stronger, they wouldn't have had to save me... they shouldn't have been hurt on my account! I don't even know if my siblings were successfully protected too!

[And if they weren't--no. No, he doesn't want to think like that. But it's already so unfair. Why did it have to be him who came out unharmed?]