"But did know ing change action? Did knowing save Jay son from almost die ing? If hurt you too, why did anyway? And think that Jay son not in pain to remember both hard time s and that Ash is nice now?" Very delightful, little Fatespeaker was trying to make Ash understand. Even if it hurt him. He should understand the pain Jason went through because of him. And there where high rates to what can happen due to accidents. He had good right to worry if Puck would repeat his last major mistake.

"That's exactly what I tried to save him from! Harm! Hurting! Take your pick. And I didn't care if it hurt me as long as it helped him. And I tried apologizing. He says it's okay...but I know it's really not, but I just...don't know what to do to fix it."

"Can't. Can't fix. Scars on him and in mind there. Scarred. Hurt. Scared of so much now. Scared of more than was before. True. Is not okay. But be cuz can not understand. ..." She sighed. "Look. Hurt both you and Jay son, you hurt dur ing time as well. Yes? Re member you're pain. Understand how feels to hurt. And find how to empathize. May be little to late, yes. Jay son try ing to enjoy what can, yes. But have you not haded point of feeling as he?"

Ash didn't reply. He hadn't tried empathizing with him, but he had always figured that Jason didn't want to talk about it. And if this dragon was right about it being too late...

Then he might just have to suck it up. He had wanted him to fall to Puck, he had known the summer fey would be there to pick up the peices, yes?

She stubbornly poked his chest, wanting a response and not a icey one sided conversation just because the icey boi didn't want to talk anymore. He'd done that to Jason in that iron realm trod, she wasn't about to let him do that to her.

Yes, he had. And he had planned for Jason to move on then and there, and when he didn't...Ash looked down at the little dragon. "...Do you need something?"

She looked right back up at him, expression determined and slightly upset. " ... " Then it softened the slightest. "I a m not one to ask that. " She meant that she wasn't who he should as that, she meant he should ask Jason. But more so, she wanted him to actually try to make it up to him instead of pushing and pulling him back and forth again. She wanted him to find out straight from Jason what he could do to make it up.

Well, Ash was done with the pushing. As for the pulling...well...that's a whole different story. "I know, and I've been meaning to ask him, but..." He was afraid. He was scared of what Jason would say.

"But .... ?" She prodded, bobbing her head at him a bit. She wanted that whole sentence, and not just something he would say to satisfy her. And as for his fear, well sometimes you have to face your fears. Hadn't Jason done quite a bit despite being terrified through it all?

Yes, he had. Ash shook his head. "It's nothing." Yeah, like he was about to admit his fears to the tiny she-dragon