[ They have to find Nai, yes. And the other Wolfwood – Vash smiles a little at that. My Wolfwood. He wants to ask so many questions, about how this Vash met his Wolfwood, if they've been traveling together long, if he had his suspicions at first or if his Wolfwood knew what subtlely was. If they both favor a weapon bigger than they are. If his Wolfwood carries that same deep self-loathing, that same guilt over what was done to him, and what he was made to do, and if so, if he's found a way to ease that ache.

But their stories are so different, he's learning, that any similarities at all seem to be coincidence more than anything. Meeting Wolfwood, and Meryl, before July? Someone named Roberto, and then being held by Knives? He's not sure his Knives, his brother from his world even knows that Meryl exists. He hopes that's the case. She'll be a lot safer if she manages to stay below Knives's radar. ]

We'll find him, if he's here. Your Wolfwood.

[ But even as he says it, he knows it's a lie. There's no we here, is there? This Vash needs to go find the rest of his team, his Wolfwood, his brother Nai. Maybe with his different history he'll have a different ending, too? That's something to hope for, certainly!

With a deep breath to steady himself, Vash rises to his feet with hardly a wobble. Just a little further to go. He's almost there. ]

But first, I think we should go drag my Wolfwood out of whatever bottle he's crawled into.

[ He knows the man too well by now, and there's no question in Vash's mind where Wolfwood is hiding. ]