Saix was silent for a moment, lips pressed together. He remembered that fight, but he held back the reply that they'd fought for their home because that was what Aerith wanted to do now. It wasn't conducive to his argument, and admitting that he might possibly understand her point of view revealed a weakness Saix wasn't prepared to voice. He was sure Axel remembered it well enough for himself, anyway.

"Failing to leave now risks more lives than doing so, unnecessarily," he pointed out, after a moment that had stretched just a fraction too long, "because it also risks ours. She is thinking of her home, and friends, and not herself. I would have expected that if anyone could convince her to think selfishly, it would have been you."

It sounded like a subtle dig, but it was hard to tell, with Saix.

"I have no intention of risking my life here," he added.