...Oh.

[ well. between those emotions and her words, that punches him in the gut pretty hard.

his brothers are the most annoying pieces of shit in the world, and he wants to kill them all the time, but...

he remembers waiting in his empty house for almost two months for them to come home when he was in that other world, not sure where or why they were gone. how much it felt like a part of him was missing. how lonely and out of place he still feels here without them. ]

Okay. I think I get that. Sorry.

[ she knows about his brothers, and she knows he's almost always been with them. they don't have quite the same relationship, but she does think he can understand what she's feeling. ]

... It's all right. I've accepted what's going to happen.

[ nods... ]

...Do you think we're still going to get out of here in the end? Everyone on both sides. You might still be able to find him.

[ something churns in her emotions. ]

We have a method now. We only have to go forward with it.

[ she purposefully doesn't respond to the last part. ]

[ he notices that, but won't mention it further. ]

...Mm. And hope we don't mess it up in the home stretch, yeah.