They could have protested. I wasn't really alone, not when the three of them were squeezed around me so tightly that I could hardly breathe. But I felt like I was and I think they felt the same way. I wanted to comfort them. I really did. I knew they'd spent so long searching for Princess Pyra. To lose her now, to hear that she wasn't coming back after they were so close to retrieving her, must have been devastating. But I couldn't get the words to come. All I could think about was Jono, and my friends, and Yukimi, and everything that I had lost.