Do you think this is better? [ This world. ] I thought we'd be there for longer.

[ It's not precisely disappointment that seeps into his tone, but there is a sort of colorlessness to it that keeps it from being less warm than usual, however brusque his speech is. He'd prefer to stay and fight. ]

But yeah. They're here. Up there, too. And I'm alive to keep protecting them.

[ Somehow. ]

...somehow.