No, it's not selfish. Just because others have gone through this or something like it doesn't mean you can't still be upset about this happening.
[ And Claude would argue it is unique if that didn't feel like pressing on wounds for all of them - no one will fully understand what Viktor feels over losing Jayce, what he felt over losing Petra, Hilda for Marianne, and Sylvain for Felix except each person named. All that can be done is to be there for each other through it, and that's something filed under Claude's regrets from Petra's disappearance. He could've done more outside of that, but nothing to do now but provide that for another friend with a shake of his head. ]
As you said, there has to be a way to do this. Otherwise they wouldn't keep the ritual itself so hidden from us if they believed we couldn't do something to change it. Or alter it to make it do something else, including sending us back to where they drew us in from.
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[ And Claude would argue it is unique if that didn't feel like pressing on wounds for all of them - no one will fully understand what Viktor feels over losing Jayce, what he felt over losing Petra, Hilda for Marianne, and Sylvain for Felix except each person named. All that can be done is to be there for each other through it, and that's something filed under Claude's regrets from Petra's disappearance. He could've done more outside of that, but nothing to do now but provide that for another friend with a shake of his head. ]
As you said, there has to be a way to do this. Otherwise they wouldn't keep the ritual itself so hidden from us if they believed we couldn't do something to change it. Or alter it to make it do something else, including sending us back to where they drew us in from.