Timofey has accused me of the same thing too many times to count. But this feels different. Noelle is suggesting everyone outside of herself is dispensable. But Timofey is loyal. He looks out for himself and the people important to him. He’d rather die than let someone he counted as a friend suffer in his place. He’s a better person than she will ever be. “Maybe I am too quick to help people who don’t deserve it.” I gesture to her. “Take yourself as the key example. You have been so busy kidnapping babies and hiding in your own filth that you never once stopped to consider that maybe you didn’t have to do everything on your own. Do you realize that Timofey could have gotten your case at the FBI tossed out?” At that, finally, Noelle seems to blanche. “Timofey could have protected you,

