Minato, I had power like to hers once. Maybe not the same scale, but... I could stop time, and plenty of other things bent to my will, too. And she's not the only one so powerful that we've met, though the scale is different for Lilac, too.

[She doesn't want to say this. She doesn't want to hurt him. But if she doesn't say it, she knows she'll regret it for however long her life is after this moment.]

When I messed up, I did my best to fix it myself, or make amends. I didn't beg for help from voices in the dark and fear what they might do to me. I didn't devote myself to love to a point where I ripped my own heart out. [Though that was a near thing, really, considering these past weeks.] I can't understand why they did those things, and it makes me wonder if she really will decide, or if she'll just feed us to her shining god once we've all relaxed....