And it is also all right to both be glad and grieve, A-Yuan. You need not prove your strength to me. I know it.

[ He doesn't let go of Sizhui just yet, nor does he stop the soothing. ]

And I am thinking... we do not yet need to let them go. I can make arrangements for someone to take them home should they be left all alone, but while at least some of us are here...

They are a comfort, and company.