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between the two of us? i've always felt a bit guilty for taking up noct's time
seeing how he's got serious responsibilities and whenever we hung out it was to pig out on junk food and video games
but he's my best friend
my first real friend, iggy and gladio came after, and even then we only became friends because i was friends with noct first

so do i wish he was still here? yeah
more than anything in the world, but that's not a fair thought to have

going back home is what we want in the end though, right?

no matter how you look at it this isn't home
we just gotta trust we'll follow soon and that they'll be fine in the meantime

[He knows it’s a selfish thought to want either of them back. That’s where the guilt comes from, but there’s something heartening in hearing it affirmed by Prompto. That he’s not alone in that brand of thinking — nor knowing they have no choice but to rely only on the trust that they’ll manage on their own.]

Maybe it should be a matter of us working harder to return to them, rather than wishing they could come back to us.

[Ah, that seems so… obvious now, after all that Prompto’s said.]

even when we're not sure what it is that we should be doing to get us back, right?

[makes sense, though, and he agrees with the sentiment. it might be random or it might be something they can actually force to happen. either way, they're here, both connor and noctis aren't.]

i got your back and you got mine, yeah

All the more reason to keep pushing forward. That's all we have, really, in this place. That small bit of hope to cling to.

[A spark of light, still flickering. It'll dull the ache in his chest... eventually.]

Of course. I always do. It's like you said, we're friends.

yeah

[to both statements...]

just to get it out of the way: we're both upset, right? so might as well just own it
for however long this feeling might be

Yes. We are.

But let's not wallow. I can't do that. I wasn't made to function that way.

i can drop by to paint with you
learn some from the master and all that

[he can completely understand the sentiment of not wanting to wallow and wanting, instead, to be doing things.]

also... maybe install a screen on bernie? so he can communicate

[Then they can keep busy together. Even if that means-]

A screen? For text? I think you might be overestimating just what his programming can handle.

[Little Bernie is just a rudimentary AI at best.]