... That sucks.

[There's no more elegant way to put it, and even if there were Otoha wouldn't use it.]

[Losing someone he cares about... at least he's not alone. At least other people know what this pain feels like. He's gotten better at reacting to emotional pain - it's less intense now. But he doesn't really want to have it...]

Yeah. We're going to find them. All of them. We'll follow the tethers and pull them back like a fishing line.