What you have just asked me to do... is no different than dying to me. You are asking me to commit myself to a terrible lie for the rest of my life: that I value my own life over Maya's happiness. To become a "wolf" to save myself.
[His voice shakes; it could be fear, it could be despair. Either way, a tear drips down his cheek.]
I would rather die as a sheep than live as a wolf.
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What you have just asked me to do... is no different than dying to me. You are asking me to commit myself to a terrible lie for the rest of my life: that I value my own life over Maya's happiness. To become a "wolf" to save myself.
[His voice shakes; it could be fear, it could be despair. Either way, a tear drips down his cheek.]
I would rather die as a sheep than live as a wolf.