I just meant this one- this particular sacrifice. Pretty sure you'd get universal agreement if you said you wanted to ease back on the self-sacrificing thing. Like- it's kind of a screwed up way of thinking about it, but it's helped me a little through my journey- you have to live now to die later, y'know? At least... I kinda got the feeling that's what other people believed, when someone died for my sake. [He fidgets a little.] I know you think you're immortal, but we both know something's gonna kill you. [Or someone. Or him.] So don't tempt fate. We'd like to keep you around for a while.

[And it feels even worse of a sentiment now that he's said it, so he huffs a frustrated breath at his own communication fail and forges ahead.]

Do... you want someone there with you? To help?

[He has no idea if it would even remotely make a difference, but it feels wrong not to offer in light of Ardyn's words.]