[ The question just gets a look, Ashton's eyes only a little wider, eyebrows raised a moment as if to say more without the words, before the earth genasi takes a long draw from his drink and nods. ]

Yeah I just...I don't know. I get scared.

Like...what if...what if we end up back home and I forget all about him...but there's like this hole that nothing fits in because the person who made that hole is in a completely different world? Do I take what happiness I can just to torture myself later?

[ Not that he knows if that's the case or not. Who knows. ]