[It's hard for Shepard to concede anything emotionally, much less physically- even as Toriel tries to give her something to lean on, her body is rigid, uncompromising. It's one part a panicked adrenaline response and one part training, to walk until you give out. If she has the strength, physically, to hold herself up, she won't ever stop.

She does, however, allow herself to be lead a direction to a chair, sitting down and trying to ignore the tear and the protests of her leg muscles, having been standing for so long.]

It was just... it was stupid. He shouldn't have been there, I should've been faster. It caught me off-guard, and...

[And people die, when she makes mistakes. The most dangerous place for anyone in the galaxy to be is by her side.]

He should've stayed away from me. He would have been fine.