[ If Anna hasn't been completely sure about coming to him before, she definitely is now. She's quick to wind her arms around him in return, still being so careful even as she holds him tight. It's easy for ten to forget sometimes, how little say they have in anything that happens here. Nothing like a couple of missing people to remind them, huh? ]

Sometimes they come back, right? Sometimes. Balthazar, Galen, Bruce, they all came back. Your guys could too.

[ She wants to sugar coat it so badly, wants to tell him it'll be okay and it'll all work out in the end. She can't quite get the words out though, anything she thinks of sounds too contrived and unbelievable. Besides, he knows as well as Anna does that it's a lie. A well meaning one, but a lie nonetheless, so she just holds him a little tighter instead. ]

It wasn't your fault. Whoever does this, they're sick and twisted, but you couldn't have done anything. It's not your fault.