[It would have been kinder to have left a body behind, perhaps. That's...not something that could work, from a purely physical perspective, but the Ingo from before seems gone nearly as surely as if he'd died. If he'd done it properly, Emmet could have moved on.
Maybe that's cowardly of him to think.]
Well, I do not see why it would have been your fault.
[He can't know that for sure. Maybe they'd been fighting; he doesn't know. But it seems important to reassure him, because now that they know what happened, it's pretty plainly not anything either of them could have accomplished on their own. Something must have happened to him.]
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[It would have been kinder to have left a body behind, perhaps. That's...not something that could work, from a purely physical perspective, but the Ingo from before seems gone nearly as surely as if he'd died. If he'd done it properly, Emmet could have moved on.
Maybe that's cowardly of him to think.]
Well, I do not see why it would have been your fault.
[He can't know that for sure. Maybe they'd been fighting; he doesn't know. But it seems important to reassure him, because now that they know what happened, it's pretty plainly not anything either of them could have accomplished on their own. Something must have happened to him.]