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"If I had control over all of it?" Bert pulled a face. "That's not a power I'd want, thankee. But here's the thing. For your sake, I'd have you stay. We who go with him, we'll die. Most likely painfully, certainly young. Only..." Sighing, he grimaced. "For him, I'd have you stay. And for me. If only because it's the only way Kaine might come along with us." He blushed as he said it, scuffing his foot in a very teenaged way.