I'm pretty certain if we got the right equipment, we could do something with this.

[He hesitates- the candle at least takes away the biting, negative thoughts. It evens them out, flattens the anxiety spikes and the depression lows. Everything is... plateaued right now, and he's glad of it.

The thought of just running is tempting. He could go somewhere where no one knew who he was, what he did. But then Deerington had been this and look what happened there. There's no running - and he doesn't want to any more. It's lost its sheen. ]

I need to go back to Corona one day. If I don't work out that final incantation... I don't know. But I know I'm needed, and I need to fix the mess I've made there. And see my friends. My dad.

[He gave everything to get his dad back, he doesn't want to never see him again. But he has people here who mean so much to him. Friends who are practically family at this point - people he can't bear to lose. And then there's Ruby... and Fern. He sits back a little, watching the hologram and all the little worlds spinning around in it.]

You could always come to Corona, y'know. Rapunzel has a lot of Royal Guards, but she hasn't got a knight.