I know. Every time it feels like we're getting closer, it just-- we just find ourselves blocked again. And I don't know how, exactly, we're going to do it, but...

[she shakes her head, there.]

I've seen a lot, in my lifetime. A hundred different worlds. I've seen some-- some pretty existentially horrifying shit, honestly, and lost people close to me, and you know what I've seen happen to my world, but-- I know there's just as much good out there. That there's plenty of it in the people here, despite everything. There aren't-- for all the death we've seen, it's not just because there are that many people here who are killers at heart. I've seen so many people here do their best to try to do good anyway, and there are... impossible things, that sometimes still manage to happen.

[it's something she's trying so, so hard to hold onto. especially after yesterday, how everything felt then. she thinks about how it felt like some sort of small miracle, to know one of her friends was dead and then see him stride in, alive, right in time. how it's felt over the last year or so to finally have the chance to bring more of her family together, and to see the things they've accomplished despite her worries and fears.]

This is just going to have to be one of those impossible things.

...I don't know if your world has studied this, exactly, but what do you know about bonds, Caleb?