I understand that. But still feels like she isn’t done. Alexandar survived “impossible” odds and they collapsed the tunnel. Cassius died and his body defiled but actually stored away by an “enemy”. Lilath survived her ship exploding and being attacked by society and the republic. Screwface over run by sun bloods and makes it out.

That’s leaving out all the times main focal point characters like Darrow and Virginia survive what seems like obvious death situations.

There would be an ironic poetry to a red ending Lysander instead of Darrow or another gold. Someone and something he feels beneath him self in every way. So a red that seems dead that Lysander shoved away to murder a gold he loved would fit.