Will you stay?

"I see..." Lisa mumbled to herself. 

"Is that all you have to say after hearing what I have said? Aren't you the least bit shocked? I just told you that you have died." Valdel was finally able to say what he was truly feeling. Ever since he heard about Lisa's death, he had always blamed himself. He had comforted Lara about it, but the truth was he was more affected by Lisa's death than even Lara. 

The truth was Valdel knew about Lisa's feelings for a long time now, but he did nothing about it. In fact, he was happy that she wasn't coming with them on their journey as she would have proven a distraction to the goal he wished to achieve. 

Yet now he regretted everything. So hearing how calm Lisa was about her death was not something he expected. Valdel expected there to be shouting, more denial, and angry rants. Yet there was none of those, he wanted her to get angry at him, to blame him.