"That's the easy thing to do, hm." Ales could sympathize, though it pushed him away from Mary towards the wall. He agreed with Ira; it would be easy to go to a world he knew was safe and ignore all the problems. If the Glade would welcome him back, he could give up and leave the job to the others. "But I couldn't rest easy knowing that I abandoned my mission, no matter how relaxing it would be." He did not have faith in the majority of the other Heroes.

He eventually backed away enough to allow the others in the room to approach Mary. However, he did not walk towards the door.

"Sometimes I feel like I need to fix everything, and sometimes I wish I could catch a break. It's up to me to decide how to compromise."