The Flame and The Sojourner

He was a coward. If there was anything that Timothy knew about himself—his self preservation always took over when things got too dangerous and out of his control. He didn't like thinking about it. He hated acknowledging that the reason why his mother might have died was because he had been too much of a coward, but spending too much time with his thoughts at the hallway to the secret library had made him confront it. 

Timothy had done it while he was in that feverish daze.

It was the effects of those runes and symbols on the walls that made him much more contemplative. It had made his blood boil when he reminded himself of the narrow-minded thinking of the Keeper of the Secret Library, and yet when Han had saved him from danger? 

He didn't look back once to check, he kept running.