In a fight like this, unless you’re willing to lose everything to win, you lose it all by losing. - James S. A. Corey

I mean it happened at the same time, but that's the thing. Time doesn't actually work like that. 'The same time' is a weird linguistic fantasy. It doesn't exist. Simultaneity doesn't act like this.

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but it is the mother of any number of other things as well: sacrifice and monstrosity and metamorphosis. Necessity is the mother of all necessary things, to coin a tautology.

“At least he cares,” Elvi said. “I like him for that.”
“You like everyone,” Fayez teased. It’s your pathology.”
“You don’t like anyone.”
“That’s mine,” he said, grinning.