She suddenly doesn't know what to say, so goes with, "It'll all be okay."

He smiles a little. "I gave up on okay awhile ago, but we can dream."

Sometimes he wished that he could tell his own stories, and neatly cut those powerful girls out and instead tell a sweet story with a happy ending, but he never did, because that wasn’t what he was here for, and because that was simply too much fiction for him to carry with him.