I mean - if we were to merge our hearts or something, that's the same as one of us disappearing, right? One of us would get flooded out. [He hesitates before outright admitting:] I don't want that.

[He might not have said it aloud if his girlfriend's face wasn't still fresh in his mind from the images on the reel. He needs to stay alive and go home to her, so the one left standing would be him. Maybe part of him would sacrifice his best friend for that, were it directly linked. But it isn't, and it isn't even a good thing to want. They've all lost enough friends as is.]