Mm. He didn't want me to stop talking to him. Truth be told, I didn't want to stop, either. He kept seeming to lose track of things, without that anchor. But he's got Suran'dor with him, and enough else to ground him should he wake up and not know where he is.

[And he'll be back there soon enough, himself. It's better that he gets away a little, too, or he's liable to fall into a black hole of worry and overprotective fretting, himself.]

To say nothing of the fact of, how would we reconcile that with what we've done to all the others who came before him? Lavi and Uriel's circumstances were no less tragic, and we sent them to their deaths. Could we really have spared him just because we all liked him? I would wager most of us were fond of Tuuri, too, and yet...