[Another light squeeze of his hand; Marsh wishes he could hug him, say it's okay, it's okay. But he can't.]

I might have done the same. If I'd ever been offered a chance. But the people I wanted to save - I think they would have been more disappointed than the people I could have betrayed. They were - luminous people, Kelsier and Mare. They believed in hope, and defying fate, and sacrifice.

I didn't know L'da. But I don't. Think she would have wanted you to pay the prices you have. She wanted you to be free of that kind of thing.