Go back, regroup. Figure it out from there. He nodded numbly, he would argue but he has no arguments that aren't pure stubbornness on his own part and he knows it. He steps closer, though he doesn't reach out, hands loose at his side.

He has left this world before, this will be the fourth time if he didn't count the bouncing two and from the platform he had done this last week. Two he doesn't remember, the first when he was still in his ranka. Leaving mount Hou rather than Tai. The third time when he had went to the train, a heart beat between one moment and the next.

The second time had been full of pain and grief. Different than this time but the overarching feelings were the same.

"Thank you." Is all he can say. He doesn't want to go. It feels wrong. Yet his friends are right. It is the only way.