User blog comment:StoryGirl83/Nerve Yield for Diamond Choices in "It Lives In the Woods"/@comment-32076152-20180129014901/@comment-3452092-20180129020310

Personally, I don't want either. I feel like my sister playing Tales of Symphonia. She once stated she would trade all the male characters for the chance to keep Kratos, both of our favorite character in the game (which is my favorite video game and I think hers, too). Turns out you actually can trade one of the other male characters to keep Kratos, but if you do, that character dies. Makes the choice a lot harder. I love Kratos, but I don't like being put in the possition of killing this other character, so most of the time I will be choosing to let Kratos go to keep this other character alive.

That's a case of letting one leave or letting one die. This is worse, letting one or the other die. It becomes easy for me when I consider my character. When I play, my characters take on a personality beyond the game. I get to know what they would and wouldn't do and I know Nina would not sacrifice Noah, so with Nina that means she takes Jane's place. The next round I am playing is going to be really hard (I'm going to make really bad choices on purpose) and that gal, Lindsey, she's not the type to be willing to give her life for Noah, so I know before I even start the choice she's going to make there. The problem will be making those bad choices and still having Noah with a high enough Nerve that the choice isn't taken away from her. I think I can figure that out though. Not sure about the rest of my characters (I have made six already: Simon, Adam, Tasha, and Mari, being the other four).

Since it's already Sunday and the final chapter should be out Wednesday, I'd say just go and wait. Find out from those of us who have finished chapter fifteen (I haven't yet as I replay it several times, but I will by then) and see what happens in chapter sixteen. Hopefully whatever happens in chapter sixteen will make the choice easier. If all else fails. . . replay. Pick one of the choices, go through to the end and then replay it with the other ending. In my opinion it's a very good book.