It's not a matter of if I could. If the possibility exists, then I have to. There is something that only I can do. [That, perhaps, had been the most grating thing about being in Crystallis, which had been otherwise worth enduring. Her goal had been just beyond those stairs she was ascending, side by side with him...

She shakes her head to clear those thoughts away. Simply put, there really was nothing she could do.]

For now, I'm here, and this is the time that matters first.