[ Bastien shakes his head. ]

You don't need to apologize. I think—I don't know what I think, about rifters. I think it would be terrible to feel like you had been made or brought here intentionally to save us. What about your own life? I think if I were a rifter I would rather think it was random.

[ He's only partway to the point he intended to make, but he pauses, because he'd like to know what she thinks of this too. ]