He kept stride next to her, not at all against the slow pace. Despite his lingering guilt over her death on Michtam in his own universe, the simple fact of the matter was that he'd missed her. Fifteen years they'd been at odds, but he'd never stopped thinking of her as a friend. And now, just walking beside her as if they were on Old Miltia before the Conflict...it was nice, he couldn't deny that, at least internally. But the fact that it was just the two of them twisted the nostalgia of it, turned it bittersweet. Yes, he was happy to have Pellegri back by his side, but it only highlighted the fact that one of them was missing.