Ben shook his head. "No, that's not what I mean," he said, though it took a moment before he was able to find the words for what he was trying to say. He wasn't blaming himself for what had happened to Nora. There wasn't any point in trying to pin the blame on someone or something when things like this happened. That was a lesson he'd learned when his perfectly healthy parents had both died suddenly in a building collapse, or when the house fire had nearly taken his sister's life and left his older brother splinched. Sometimes bad things just happened, like lightning striking. It wasn't Melody's fault that Nora had been injured, and it wasn't Ben's fault that they had been in London that day, and it wasn't either of their fault that dragons had gotten loose in London. But that didn't address the deep-seated regret he held.
"It's — the time," he explained, and his voice broke. "I lost so much time with her."
"It's — the time," he explained, and his voice broke. "I lost so much time with her."
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