Is it always cowardly to run?
If you can't stand defiant, should you stand anyway? Should I have returned to the Dark Lord, convincing myself I could face him down?
If I had done that, he wouldn't have killed me. He would just have sneered at me, and I would have done all the evil he asked.
Sometimes running is the bravest thing to do.
I have been very foolish, and I have done some very bad things, and now I am very afraid.
I can hear them outside, gathering around my hiding place.
They will not take me alive.