"That seems like an awfully big promise to make, Nick," she says, but she's smiling as she says it, more steadily than any of the others she'd managed thus far. "But...I believe you."

She looks at him, and he at her, and for a moment it almost feels like there's something passing between them with the way their hands are linked. A deepening of their connection, maybe, the same kind of renewed strength that they'd found after escaping from Kagura--an escape that had led them here, just as they were now. Whatever it is, it eases some of the tension in her chest, soothes a bit of the ache.

"Not just believe, honestly," she adds. "I trust you."