Reaching out, I grabbed his hand and pulled him close, until his knees touched mine and I had to crane my neck to see his face. “I know how that kind of guilt changes you,” I said. “I don’t think it was your fault, but you do, and that’s shaped your entire life.” I suddenly realized how similar this conversation was to the same one we’d had about Branock and my father. “Just…don’t let it convince you that you’re not an incredible man. We all make mistakes, and what you did, the love you had for your sister to be willing to go to the ends of the earth for her…” I shook my head. “I would give
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