...Perhaps if those memories were all you had, that might overwhelm you.

[He tilts Elidibus's face up, kisses him very softly.]

I will not deny your fears. I will not claim they are unfounded, or unwarranted.

But there are new memories we intend to make, you, myself, Emet-Selch, together. Ones that will grow as we add to them day in and out. What we have been through will never be less painful, or tragic, or have changed us any less.

But what we can look forward to shall surely be more than what has passed, for we will ever nurture and grow it.

And none of us will take the blessings we fight for for granted, whether you remember everything or not.