[stay with his brother to watch him die, jar everything loose and spend time dragging him to the surface so that he can watch him die on the way there, or race up for help and risk him dying alone, down in the dark.
those are his choices. and at first, the latter one is unfathomable to him as an actual option. but, as he senses the Shadow readying to abandon them all down here in this tomb, he (perhaps aided by keener instincts now) runs a few fast calculations through his head.
while he would rather be with Zhas while he dies than leave him to a more lonely fate, he would also rather him live than die at all. and the longer that he thinks about it (mere fractions of a second, but they make up for it in weight), the more he realizes the only real choice he has if he does want to attempt to salvage this.
a stressed breath crushes out of his chest as the scales begin to tip--nearly turning into a whine between clenched teeth--and his weight finally shifts in the direction of the door. tearing himself away will feel very literal, but if he is going to be convinced to leave... it will have to be now, before he can change his mind.]
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those are his choices. and at first, the latter one is unfathomable to him as an actual option. but, as he senses the Shadow readying to abandon them all down here in this tomb, he (perhaps aided by keener instincts now) runs a few fast calculations through his head.
while he would rather be with Zhas while he dies than leave him to a more lonely fate, he would also rather him live than die at all. and the longer that he thinks about it (mere fractions of a second, but they make up for it in weight), the more he realizes the only real choice he has if he does want to attempt to salvage this.
a stressed breath crushes out of his chest as the scales begin to tip--nearly turning into a whine between clenched teeth--and his weight finally shifts in the direction of the door. tearing himself away will feel very literal, but if he is going to be convinced to leave... it will have to be now, before he can change his mind.]