( Collette manages not to look his way, though her eyebrow quirks up and she bites back the beginnings of laughter. )

No. Not for a moment, even when it really hurts, or gets really scary. There're too many really good things that happen too, and great people I've met, or places I've even seen. It's worth it, and -- well, you know. I said I'd tell you a bit more about what you're asking?

( It's almost a total tangent. )

I've never been to other worlds, but Vanadi met a version of me in the place he was in before. This is my other world. And I don't mind fighting to protect the important people I've met in it, or to keep their worlds from being destroyed from the outside. The ones where people want them saved, at least.