A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

That’s the thanks I get for trying to keep you alive, Your Highness.

I’m a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think…

I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.