[His eye lingers on her for just some moments before it moves back onto their destination in question. If it were up to him, maybe it might be a case of Yonah would never leave his side. Not... Well. Not until it was more organic, anyway. In an ideal world, Yonah would grow up, one day maybe fall in love, and spend her life with the person she felt completed her.

She will get that. He'll just never get the chance to see it for himself. That thought hurts almost as much as Tifa's very innocent input.]

She was taken from me.

[He manages to answer her in a way that is far more even than how he truly feels over the situation. What can he do, though...? Nier feels... Well. He feels just a touch powerless.]

I miss her a great deal, but I'm always thinking about her, which means— [He folds his free hand over the consistent thump of his heart.] —she's never far from me.