It's another story, Ronan thinks. He'd asked for this one just as he'd asked for every story brought in by each of his friends before. It's a thing that happened to someone else, another person with his face and his history and his name. That's all. It wasn't really him. It couldn't be when he's been stuck here for nearly a year and a half.

"So... so what, you sacrificed yourself?" Ronan asks because even it's a story, it's a story that doesn't make any fucking sense. "Why? Fuck, how?"