"They're gone. And there is no getting them back." Not here, not in the real world.

In some ways, she thinks, here might be even worse. Here comes with the risk of someone coming back, but not being the same person who was lost, and while she's only experienced that so far with someone she barely knew and didn't like when she had, it isn't hard to extrapolate from that, either.

She reaches up to briefly squeeze his hand where it rests against her shoulder. They have, both of them, had no shortage of losses in their lives.