[ Those words are true enough and a little comforting in their own way, even if the news as a whole was devastating in itself. He's naive in thinking that all of them will get out of this war unscathed, but... ]

Yeah, but did you ask Petra about who all was dead that she knew of? [ On one hand, he expects Claude to be thorough. On the other... there's just some things one might not want to know even then.

He sighs and shakes his head, running his fingers through his hair in agitation. ] You're right. It might be different. It seems that perhaps the Professor might be the catalyst for all of it, though. And even if she was with us that morning at Gronder... that still doesn't reassure me about the fates of the rest of you.

[ It's not just the Lions he would mourn, after all. ]

I don't even know whether or not I might have missed it. I've been here how many weeks now? Will I go back to standing on that field the morning of the battle, or - and this is even if we ever go back - will I find it done and over with?

[ And how would his absence change things? Would it change things?

...he really hates time travel. Universe travel? He doesn't even know which one is more to blame here. ]