He falls silent at that. That...that becomes confused when he looks back at the memory of that day. Had he just been a bystander, washing his hands of the matter and leaving Felix to the fate he had earned for himself? Or did stepping aside at the moment his partner needed him, called to him, stain his hands even now? Should he have been the one to pull the trigger?

Could he have? I don't know. The reasoning behind the act blurs until he's no longer certain why he acted, save for the prompting of the AI in the tower, the one who called him 'meddler'.

Did you kill him yourself?

What are you doing?

Did you kill him--

We need each other!

Did you let them do it, he asks. Let them. As though that were the end of his involvement, an absolution. If only he could decide if what he felt was guilt, or something else entirely. It might make this clearer in his head. This should be a clear answer, yes or no, did you pull the trigger or let someone else?

Silence.