Oh. It was... did everybody get a horrible memory? It wasn't just Hope getting another debilitating bout of sleep paralysis? That's... awful. They don't know what else to say to it.

They don't step backwards, they don't leave Natalia's space. They just stay. (It's not what they're used to doing. But they need to do that for Natalia right now.)

"It's not fair. It's not fair that Zenith gets taken and then we all remember exactly what happens when the Abyss starts taking over." Their voice lacks all the determination they'd been speaking with earlier. It's shaking. "I don't want to lose anyone else either. Not again."