"That is not how it ever works. Everything dies. Everyone falls. Everyone fights for as long as they are able, knowing the inevitably, the futility of it all." The best hope was to die before you had the chance to sin. It was not something a goddess would know, was it?

Besides. She was a goddess and what was he? A mere front line space marine, and a fallen one at that. Futility atop futility. "Soon enough." To get her leg checked out. To be rid of him.