"Except it wasn't just my neck on the line this time," he answered. "It was a lot of people we both cared about. I know it was the decision that ended in the least tears, but I still had to convince a few people that never had killed anyone and probably never would have that it was a good idea to pick him. And I wasn't even sure if I was right." If he'd been wrong the whole group of them would have been dead by that point.