He stops her momentum so sharply that she stumbles when he pulls her back, knocking right into him. She has to grab the front of his shirt for balance.

"So I'm just supposed to let them take my brother? For what, to save my own ass?"

It's a dream, part of her says, but seeing Nico lying there, blood streaming down his temple, hearing the urgency in Ian's voice... It's so easy to think that it's not.