All that sounds good except the last part. Been tortured enough don't need to make it worse by not passing out due to bloodloss.

[Its the only reprieve he got.]

Guess not. If I did I'm probably pacing around the Veterans Center like an idiot anyway. Better off here I think. Probably.

Better for everyone else that I'm dead.

[He looks at his smiling shovel, expression bleak, but this is one of the few things he has from home and Skulduggery could have easily kept it or broken it.]

Thanks for giving this back. Sorry I hit you with it. Didn't know what else to do.