[it's not something he likes to think about, with what he's been told of the future. this idea that he will lose his people for good, that he will be alone-- what it will make him become.

but he catches that glance from vax, and just. exhales, slow.]

...the memories of them are not something that may be taken so easily. Not for good. I think that much has been proven here, has it not?

[they may have been gone for a time, and they may be slow to return. but they are returning.]

You were not alone to begin with. You simply did not know. And you shall not have to be now.