She didn't care, or didn't realise, or didn't care enough to realise that she was being hypocritical. That she would do the same in his situation. Amaris had family to live for, yes, and she would die for them too, if it meant they got to keep on living.
She had just gone through the struggle herself, the desire to give up, actually giving up, feeling nothing and everything all at once, shutting down from the world because it was all too hard to deal with. But that didn't matter. She had to hear him say it, hear him declare it.
"Damnit Aaron!" she shouted angrily, evidently not feeling numb anymore, instead just feeling rage, anger, and Aaron was her handy target. "Don't you dare give up on yourself. Don't you fucking dare, you hear me?!" It was so beyond her normal character, even her normal vernacular, and yet she could not hold back the torrent of rage simmering just beneath those golden eyes.
"Of course I'll protect them, of course I'll be there, but you need to be too, you can't just.. just.." the rage suddenly dissipated as swiftly as it had risen, as the dragonmare huffed at the effort of all her passionate words and declarations.
"You have to survive with us, Aaron," she murmured, suddenly cold, a shiver rattling her body, as Dramyrth purred softly from her back. "You just.. have to.." she concluded softly, lamely, as her mind whirled back to being overwhelmed by it all, back to being numb, to being unable to decipher much of anything, to just barely existing.
@Aaron