"I don't think you can keep them," she said, shaking her head. "You have to believe. You have to hope. That's all you can do."

She snuggled into his chest. "Y-you have to let go. Like I have to be okay with n-never seeing Bayla again and not knowing if that means she's .... gone. And wondering if Payido's gonna stop existing some time. That's ... when you love people, you have to know that ... at any second they could just, poof, be gone. That's ... what happens."

To everyone, sooner or later, and usually sooner at that.