He was sorry. He was sincere, Lily could easily tell. "You wouldn't be you if you hadn't gone," she finally said since one of the many scenarios she had played in her head had been 'what if he had not gone at all'. It was what had made her attached to him in the first place, after all. That adventurous spirit full of dreams. "I just wish you'd have come back instead of being stranded out there." She couldn't imagine what sorts of terrible things he had gone through.