[He's well aware that people go on to live out the rest of their lives, however long or short they are, after leaving here. For some of them, it might end up being nothing because they're dead. For some people, like him, it's apparently survival, though he doesn't know what lies ahead of him. All he can think is that it's nothing he wants over the time he has here. Like this, sitting here with someone's warmth around him for the first time in years.]
Either way, you don't get to see them again. So it's the same thing from my point of view. Sometimes you just... want to see them again, even if it's a hallucination.
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[He's well aware that people go on to live out the rest of their lives, however long or short they are, after leaving here. For some of them, it might end up being nothing because they're dead. For some people, like him, it's apparently survival, though he doesn't know what lies ahead of him. All he can think is that it's nothing he wants over the time he has here. Like this, sitting here with someone's warmth around him for the first time in years.]
Either way, you don't get to see them again. So it's the same thing from my point of view. Sometimes you just... want to see them again, even if it's a hallucination.