Colette shuddered as the wind swept through the desert. She looked around and noticed a concerned Kratos looking at her out of the corner of his eye.
"I'm okay, you know." She said as she put on one of her fake smiles that always seemed to calm everyone.
She admitted to herself that she actually wasn't okay. Leaving Lloyd behind in Iselia tore her apart, she felt like she shouldn't have brought him along. Then, as a brief image of Lloyd being sliced apart by a monster or a desian, she realized that she did the right thing. She wanted him to be able to live happily in the world she knew she would work hard to make safe for him.
If she had to let him go for him to be safe and live at least a bit longer, then so be it. She just hoped the stars would keep their beauty with him gone.
She doubted it.