?The hand on his shoulder isn't do anything to calm him, much as he almost wished it could. For his brother's sake, not his own. He didn't deserve comfort when he'd failed this badly at doing the one thing that would have fixed things.

"If I hadn't distracted him, they..." He can't sit, can't be still not with Wei Ying down the hall out of his reach so he ends up pacing. "..Nobody told me they were going to send someone to kill him. I .. " He never would have agreed to that.

"I was reaching him, I could have brought him out if..."