( I don't recall disagreeing with you on any of this. I can see how this would be important to you and am sympathetic to the desire to see your way back to where you come from to reconnect with the people you care about. )
[There's a flicker of-- irritation, maybe. Or exasperation. He'd been trying to be kind, to be easy, to be gentle because children deserve the benefit of those things even in dangerous places like this one. Even when they come from grim universes where their families may be dead, where they've become used to fighting dark things.
But he has only a small capacity for any of these and eventually only frankness serves:]
( Unfortunately, I've never known anyone who went back to the place they came from. I don't mean to discourage you - by all means, pursue what you feel you're drawn to -; I only mean to be realistic as I know it. But I wish you all the best; There may very well be a way to do what you would like to. I hope if there is, that it can be done safely. )
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[There's a flicker of-- irritation, maybe. Or exasperation. He'd been trying to be kind, to be easy, to be gentle because children deserve the benefit of those things even in dangerous places like this one. Even when they come from grim universes where their families may be dead, where they've become used to fighting dark things.
But he has only a small capacity for any of these and eventually only frankness serves:]
( Unfortunately, I've never known anyone who went back to the place they came from. I don't mean to discourage you - by all means, pursue what you feel you're drawn to -; I only mean to be realistic as I know it. But I wish you all the best; There may very well be a way to do what you would like to. I hope if there is, that it can be done safely. )