[ He's quiet, and he leans against her as she places her hand on his.

She's not wrong. Again, it's something he shouldn't have had to go through, to have done. But in that same vein, ge wouldn't have trusted anyone else to make the choices he did, the ones he feels most correct about, but still unsure.

So he'll change the topic, not wanting to really linger on it too long.]

... I wonder what will happen to our contract when we leave here. It's a pretty powerful binding magic, you know. Not even I can break it.