Nene...

[Oh no... he was trying not to do this, no. His hands hover in the air, unsure, before carefully taking the watering can and helping set it down with a strain somewhat incongruous to the mood, returning to that hovering, leaning over like a concerned tree.

What can he do? What can he even say, as someone who the fangs of fate really did close on in the end? What can he offer that would even help, because the things he tried didn't work, and it's one thing to say things will be fine and another to believe it... but then again he's a liar, isn't he?]

I-I... i-it'll be okay, we're trying to find a way out, aren't we? T-this isn't the only place here, like you said...

[So maybe there's a way out that way. And... he did manage to achieve at least one thing, at the very end of the wire.]

You won't die here, okay? I-i'll make sure of it.

[How, he doesn't know. There's so many things that can go wrong, so many dangerous things and people here, and him with... not much in his own corner. But she wants to stay alive too. That's something.]