Lind had no idea if time still flowed but the blaze never faltered with no sign of fuel being consumed either. It was just the 3 versions of himself and the harmonic flame.
"You are going to apologize, you know that, right?" His human self spoke up in the crimson robes. His dark green eyes were firm but Lind nodded.
"It is alright to be annoyed by everything but you let the pain of loss cloud your mind again. It happened when Christine died, remember?" The flash of his original mother came again and he slowly nodded. It was not his proudest moment.
He had only been a teenager but before he was fairly good in school. After his classmate died, his grades plummeted as nothing mattered. They were not close but he had been a friend.
It happened to everyone eventually but it was his first similar age person dying. It was also a pure accident.