"You couldn't have known," Li Feng said, his own voice rough.
"I should have been faster," Mu Yunchen continued as if Li Feng hadn't spoken. "When he grabbed her. I was right there. I was right there and I wasn't fast enough. I should have...."
"Master Mu, you did everything..." With his state, he definitely couldn't have done much.
"I let them drag me away!" The words exploded out of him now, rage and anguish mixing into something volcanic. "I let you pull me outside while she was still in there with a bomb! I fought but I didn't fight hard enough! I should have... I could have...."
His hands came up to his hair, fingers tangling in it, pulling until it had to hurt.
"And then she drove away and I watched her go. I stood there and watched her take that bomb away from me, away from everyone, and I knew... I KNEW what she was doing and I just... I just...."
Six minutes.
Seven.
The water remained still.
Empty.
Final.
