For once Jin didn't know what he was getting into, as he piloted an AMWS that wasn't his (not an ES, Asher wasn't that anymore) through a series of crystalline tunnels. He'd left Shion behind him, though she was moving forward now.

He'd left her in tears, but he was at Asher's controls and in a position to help others of their friends. So he'd said his farewells to his sister, cramming fifteen years of unsaid sentiments into a handful of sentences.

His own eyes blurred and moisture slid down his cheek. Jin knew Shion would be all right now.