It’s not cheating if it’s smart enough to beat the people in charge at their own game.

[ he’ll stand by that. and yes, he IMMEDIATELY stares at gale’s hand like just you try that again. i dare you. ]

But it would also mean all three of us making the same wish, trying to find our partners to make that wish in the first place and throwing ourselves further into the danger zone by tying our lives to someone else’s. The thing I was very against in the beginning, we remember this, yes?