"You did the right thing. You survived. You waited for the right moment." She doesn't need his approval, but she has it anyway. He trusts her in a crisis more than he trusts almost anyone, save himself.

Maybe even more than himself nowadays.

"I wish I hadn't died," he says, the words out before he can even process that he's thinking them. "And every time I think about it I'm more glad that you're alive."