"No you don't. Everyone always says that. I've been blind, it's hardly ever true."

His voice sound more tired than reproachful. All the teaching he's tried to do and still no one seems to have learned.

"Depends on how you define 'necessary'. If I don't want to die, yes. But regeneration is its own kind of death. Regeneration the death comes with change, but change isn't always for the better."

Darker, colder, he's heard the analogies before. They didn't really help with the decision to be made, best not repeat them. He looks down at her last statement and realises he has to reach farther to reach her.

"What are you sorry for? I gave my life willingly. This? Is just what comes after."