“It’s better than you were looking not too long ago,” Alan agreed, and tried not to feel the sadness of what had happened to his friends all over again, tried not to feel that guilt he and Much had spent so much time stewing in because of their failure to find them. That guilt of being the ones left behind and not tortured.
It wasn’t that hard to forgive Will after spending weeks thinking about that survivor’s guilt, weeks spent asking what would have been left of me if I’d been in that dungeon? Alan didn’t think he would have dealt with it very well at all. “TikTok magic is gonna make you hench.”