She was nodding. Carefully. "I ... I still mean it. What I said, the other day, before things got bad. About ... how I want to be wherever you are. That I want us to be ... together, after graduation. If you do, too."

Even though it'd be harder, in some ways, with one another. Her facing everything in Spira, and him dealing with his past in Gaia. It was still better than ... than not having each other at all.