[There was little he could say to comfort her. Anything he tried would sound false or insensitive. He knew how deeply it could cut to have those you trusted turn against you. They may not have wielded actual knives, but they had stabbed her just as sharply with their betrayal.
After a moment, he lets his hand fall away as he stared into the firelight. They were in another world, but that darkness still found its way here. The questions and the frustration would never diminish. As long as they were given a moment of peace, their thoughts would drift back to the past.]
That won't happen here.
[He might have failed to save his world, but he wouldn't fail the rest here, those he fought alongside.]
If you are captured, I will come for you. I promise.
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[There was little he could say to comfort her. Anything he tried would sound false or insensitive. He knew how deeply it could cut to have those you trusted turn against you. They may not have wielded actual knives, but they had stabbed her just as sharply with their betrayal.
After a moment, he lets his hand fall away as he stared into the firelight. They were in another world, but that darkness still found its way here. The questions and the frustration would never diminish. As long as they were given a moment of peace, their thoughts would drift back to the past.]
That won't happen here.
[He might have failed to save his world, but he wouldn't fail the rest here, those he fought alongside.]
If you are captured, I will come for you. I promise.