"Don't waste your pity on me," He says between his teeth, even as Raine's healing artes wash across his wounds and even as Presea bends to retrieve his battered sword, even as Sheena wipes the back of her hand across her eyes and tries as hard as she can to seem furious instead of devastated.

Lloyd just looks at him like he's an idiot and offers his hand more firmly, as if Zelos simply hadn't noticed it the first time. As if Zelos hadn't been trying to kill them all only moments before.