Candidly, in turn: to return a life to one of our rag tag group, to those I love, yes. For anything other than that—until the moment this world has given me and every last one of us no other option to hold on to those I love and see them home, no, and even then, I don't know that I could. It would be a lie saying it's not tempting, that the magic as it's called here doesn't fascinate, that power isn't its own defense and weakness both. But I've lived that life once. I ended it, decisively, thinking I'd be the only one to bear that final cost. I was wrong, on all counts.

That's not a choice I will make again.