Maybe it won't end up being useful at all. I don't know.

[That laugh... he's unhappy with it, but it didn't sound mocking. More incredulous. Better that than the alternative, but he's not the happiest with it, either.]

But even if it's hopeless, I have to try. He deserves better than an endless age of unhappiness, waiting for death. Deserves to know that someone will stand by his side, even after everything he's done.

[Come hell or high water or mountains crumbling into the sea and so on.]