Anduin shakes his head, offering a gentle smile as he does.

"I think it is possible to be wary of your surroundings while still seeing the good in them," he replies. "You can still have hope for the future, even if you find yourself uncertain of the present. I have not found the two to be mutually exclusive myself, at any rate."

He offers her a somewhat self-conscious smile, before glancing out across the springs. "I spent some time at a place not unlike this, back where I am from. I think that is also making me more homesick than I realized I was."