The blond nods quietly watching all of this honest emotion play over the dragon's face. The nervous fidgeting with the jihui board, the uncertainty. It almost feels wrong to take advantage of the moment, to press for anything more than he's already given.

"Just one thing, then." Anduin's chin lifts slightly. "If you could do it all over again...would you have done it differently?"

He knows better than to ask if he regrets it, but maybe. Maybe if he could admit that much, it would be enough. It would soothe that wound that ached still, wondering if another betrayal was just moments away despite all evidence to the contrary.

They could bury this, here and now.