[ she gets up from her chair when he clutches his head, hands on the table. ]

Hey. [ crossing around it, she skeels slightly to grip his shoulders. ] Hey! Look at me.

[ fear of failure, fear of inaction. like how she blames herself for feferi's death? no, she'd armed her killer. more like how karkat blames himself for her own. ]

Inaction on its own, by its very definition, doesn't put the blood on your hands. Never spare the blame from the one who struck the blow because you hadn't prevented them.

Could you even have done so if you had acted? Or would you only have been added to the corpse pile?