It will take a while for the hurt to simmer, and time to heal. For him, he doesn't know the woman much, but she gave him a gift that can't be repaid. And he knows people who left beyond the barrier seldom come back. He himself cannot return home.

"Okay. Hopefully we can find something and I have to learn in her place. I can't match her years of experience and knowledge." With a nod to her hand, "But let's do our best."