[She honestly looks at it with more compassion than he expected- he's always removed himself so far from the situation, stared at it from the outside, that it's difficult to reattach emotion to it. It's how he's had to deal with what happened at Macha, too.]

[Because when his head is back inside of it, when it's real and all around him, even in his past, he doesn't ever want to live through that again.]

Hey, is okay. I helped my mother and my cousin. This shitty war? Our country might be ruined but my mother and cousin have chance to build something good.

[Niko... not really as much. He just sort of trudges forward through life. Even when people care.]