It most certainly is. There would be nowhere they can go, not in the Live Zone. He can be fast, he can hide, but she is different. In every way she would slow him down and be a risk, but would that matter?

Would reason stop him, now as more and more whispers continue to nibble just inside his ears, tickling and hurting just enough to make him shake his head again. With his hands taken away, that seems the next best thing, but isn't that the same logic a dog with an itch might use?

"I would just be weaker. I would just be like then." He doesn't know that it would be, or could be different. "I shouldn't...go there. I couldn't be strong enough."