Broken Boulder pattern evolving, motion insolvent

It didn't take long for him to find her— rather, she found him. He suppressed the urge to flinch at the bump; for obvious reasons, he was a bit on edge. Hey, His own greeting came choked. Alarian sucked in a breath at her question, suddenly lightheaded all over again. I— Lily is gone. She left. We— there was a... an argument. She just left.
He had to take a moment, then, to breathe. Saying it made it feel real, and he was terrified of that— terrified of this whole thing. Lily had always seemed the most stable, the most committed of them; it felt so sudden and wrong. More than anything, it hurt to admit that he had driven her to this— that their places should have been switched, now. He didn't deserve to be the one still here.