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[Ben is still turned mostly away, though his head is tilted so he can at least see the movement from the edge of his vision when his warden moves; he listens to what's being said to him, seeing no use in refuting or agreeing. Rhade's right, as far as Ben can tell: it's a moot point because the only time it can be done is when someone disappears completely.
The last part, however, makes him flinch away again. Max is not a safe topic, if there even is one; he wants at once to say he knows that, that it was the kindest thing anyone ever did for him, that Max wanted to do it, that he didn't seem all that important to her while she was breaking his knee to save her precious human.
But the fact of the matter is that whether or not the demand was horrible, it had been the right choice, or would have been had he actually died. If she'd left him it would have been worse than death; if she'd stayed she would've been captured, too. There had been precious little time and precious few options, of which his had been the best either of them could do.
He isn't a strong enough person to talk about that, about Max and how things went, on top of everything else, so he tries to evade it. Instead, voice low, he asks a question he's afraid to hear the answer to; he's afraid he already knows what it is.]
Will you request reassignment?
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