It's a sentence if he doesn't want me to go with him.

[Pause.]

Comrade, people have asked me to leave with them before. Friends, people who loved me. Some people who I promised I would follow one day. Just to meet them again.

I said no to people who I cared very much for because even though they were my dear friends, I didn't want to be stuck with them.

I'm not saying that Barron doesn't like me, or doesn't care about me, but he's been stuck with me for years already. If he wants to run away and never see me again then I can't hold it against him, but that won't make it any less terrible.