/It would not have been his choice. Sometimes...people just have to go, not because they want to./

(She feels her throat constrict slightly. This sounds a bit too close to home for her as well.)

/I think...if he was your good friend, he would not have wanted to go. If he could have, he would have, umm...fought back very hard to stay, because he is your friend and he would not want to leave you. But Mayfield is like that, and we don't have much...much control. Maybe if he knew that he was going to be taken away, he would've done all he could to stop it./