[ He will always be her boy, no matter the horrors. Maybe that makes her a flawed being, to love a monster, but how can she not? Her boys have been through so much, and she didn't manage to give Nai the help he needed. She's guilty, too.

(In so many ways.) ]

I know. We can stop him together... and there's always a third way of doing things. It's not only kill or die. We can figure it out together and bring him home.

[ If he would have talked to her, maybe they could have made a paradise for everyone. Nai was so, so bright, and his ideas could have made humanity better. Instead he was too frightened and now everyone's suffering.

Including him. ]

Together.

[ Rem repeats, gathering Vash in her arms. He's so much bigger, so much heavier and oddly teenage-knobbly in places than her little one, who fit so well. Vash still belongs right there, though. Held tight. ]