[He pauses for a moment - taking a few difficult, ragged breaths.

It's becoming harder to think that this could be referring to anyone other than Ion.]

I... I understand that feeling. [He feels somewhat similar regarding a different sort of conflict. He knows his granddaughter, Ikki, will be safer at home. But he also knows he'll have passed on by the time she's born. He may never get to meet her at home.] I wish it were possible for things like that to happen peacefully.

But... Have you thought about what he wants?