[ He eyes her, and how her appearance shifts, and tenses. It's possible the lantern did something else to her when it peeled away her memories, but he can't be sure after what he saw. The longer he's here, the more he's realizing how many of them are walked corpses. Many without a future to return to.

And then there's him, who is alive because he's always the last. They both are well acquainted with failure. ]

Do you think it'd be better if you knew? As long as you don't know if everything ended, there's a chance that it didn't.