The added wave of guilt seemed unnecessary in Blue's mind; he expected her to say something like that in the end. Rather than suggest it himself, it seemed...better that way? Somehow. He was reluctant to speak so forwardly on it; it wasn't in his realm of understanding. Not utterly, not as...new as it was.

Reluctant still at the image it invoked. Yet he was hardly the sort to balk at something hurtful to himself when it benefited the people who mattered to him. Compared to what he'd done – what he would do in his distant future – it was hardly a trouble.

Humans here...share their blood in a crisis, too, don't they? Given the disasters he'd witnessed here, that much was true.

"Then I'll help as you say," he said, rather convinced of it, and nodding a little.