She shakes her head again, still trying to dislodge the images of Luceti being destroyed by one of these weapons. It looked a lot like Finkton, of course, but worse.

"I know you promised that, but Gai... you can't possibly think I'm the sort of person to leave that entirely to you," she says, laughing thickly. "Booker is a walking disaster area, and even then I can't just follow him around and let him take care of everything. There's always something I can do, there's always something I feel I have to do."

She looks up at him again and moves her hand up to Gai's jaw. He had been so intense during the meeting she thought for a moment he was an entirely different person. But that wasn't the case at all, he lived at this level of intensity. The audience changed, the reasons changed, but Elizabeth saw the same man holding her tightly and promising she would be happy.

"Just promise me that whatever I have to do, I won't do it alone. And whatever you have to do, you won't do it alone either."