[ Chizuru shakes her head. Sure, she'd love to reassure her friend fully here, but it's not like she wants to lie here either. Especially if it might turn out to not be the case at all in the end. ]

I'm not sure.

[ As nice as it would be - for Melius, anyway, who desperately wishes to escape his duty - to know that it really is the case. That he's free, and doesn't have to worry about his world. ]

It's just what other people said. I'm.. not sure how they know either, since it doesn't seem like something you could just find out.. [ How would one even do that?

Chizuru decides to not think about it. It makes her head spin too much, even moreso than snapping out of the memory to them standing on the streets of Trench again. Like nothing happened. Like they didn't watch an entire place being destroyed. ]

Maybe they read it somewhere.

[ Chizuru never goes to the archives herself, after all, leaving that sort of thing to people smarter than her. ]