Kintla Flatlands [m] so please don't take me for no fool

Selfish, he knows it is, but it is the only way to save what they have. Already he feels the strain, and he doesn’t want to lose Zephyr—not again, the near misses too much for his heart to handle.
I can’t stay there— He explains in a rush. It is enough that the silver is willing to go with him, but he wonders if this, too, would be one of Zephyr’s regrets.
He wonders if he will come to regret this promise, too, but he sinks into it—drunk on wanting to feel important in some way to him. I promise I won’t leave you.