After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.

...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia

I'm sick of running away from things.

He used you, yeah. But what if you hadn't come? My family would have run again, but we would never have been free. We would never stop hunting us."
"I know." I thought of my frustration in Paris and I couldn't even imagine how sick of running Seth must be.
"That's why I had to come."
His eyebrow cocked upward. "And here I thought you came to see me.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never be able to outrun. Nobody can shake off their own shadow.

Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.