[He closes his eyes. A stray tap adds a handful more low-level CEs to Red's inventory from the friend summon. That might happen a few times in this conversation.]

I don't like that way of thinking.

[He's not completely disagreeing, because the more they have to deal with the dead walking among them, the more they have to deal with how much closer they are to the dead, the more... the more they understand just how bad the coral infection is -- the more it's unacceptable to give up on those who are gone.

At the same time, banking too much on killing people by telling yourself it can be undone later... maybe it's the world he comes from. Maybe he's too inflexible. He doesn't want to put much stock by that.]