[It's the pause that makes Lightning look to him again with an intense gaze. It all hits closer to home than she imagined it would when she asked and the similarities of his story to her own are so striking that she finds herself sliding along the bench closer to him, perhaps to reach out to him? To comfort him? She doesn't really know -- she was never good at these things. So she hesitates and falls back but her hard stare remains.]

I'm... sorry.

[It doesn't matter what dimension this was or when. This is one more person that Lightning couldn't help.]

I know how it feels... To feel like you failed to protect something. You fight and fight, and for what? [Etro, Caius, Valhalla... Serah...] Maybe that's why people like you and me were brought here. To make up for it... a second chance to make things right.