[ For a moment Amos sits with Drizzt's words, the feel of hand on hand. And he thinks — well, Drizzt is probably over it. Knowing that Yima is still out there somewhere and that they're elsewhere now anyway, he certainly is.

Water under the bridge, and all that. ]

None of this is real anyway, is it? Don't get me wrong, it's good of you to find value, but it's not a tough choice. You put something out of its misery instead of letting it drag out to its inevitable end. Just that here it's more like an abstract question. Not like you gotta pull a trigger or plunge in the needle or anything.

[ A beat, because he's tended to be drawn to Advocate-like people — and while he respects the hell out of them, he also knows they also tend to have one particular flaw he wants them to, well. Stop having. ]

You don't gotta take on a burden here.