Without going back, there was no real way to know if anything they'd learned here was going to stay with them. Aqua was certainly hoping it was - if only for the fact that she had been able to see Master Eraqus one last time - but there simply wasn't any way to know for sure. She'd simply have to make do with what she got, and that sort of uncertainty had become all too familiar a companion of late.

If she was going to be the only one who could carry the future forward, she would. Even it was going to be a hard and lonely job.

"I do," she answered with a nod. "But can you blame me for wishing it could be any other way?"