"Alright," he says, letting out a long breath and lacing his fingers together in his lap.

"I'm as dead as you. If I go back, all I have waiting for me is an execution. You and I are both doomed back in our native realities."

He holds up a hand.

"But. By coming here we've split the timeline again, haven't we? And here in this world we aren't doomed. You're still alive. I have no shackles waiting for me. We can forge new futures here. Don't think of what you experienced as an ending. Think of it as permission to move forward here now that your time there is done."