" Dex, what if Ash doesn’t make it?” Cael’s voice was quiet, as if saying the words alone might make it so. “Ash is a fighter. You know if death comes knocking, he will beat the shit out of it.” And Dex believed that. Ash was the hardest, toughest, meanest son of a bitch Dex knew. The guy wouldn’t go down without a fight. “What if he can’t?” Cael pulled away, his eyes puffy and red. “I need to be there with him. I need him to know I’m not pissed off with him. That I understand why he did what he did.” Just "
― Charlie Cochet , Rack & Ruin (THIRDS, #3)