Ben nodded, feeling his lower lip wobble a little. His eyes felt scratchy but he was a big boy now--he'd gone in the Forbidden Forest all alone with just Faustus after all!--and he wasn't going to cry.
"You promise you're not going away forever and ever and ever like Auntie Mandy and Auntie Sophie and my Mommy?" This was what worried Ben the most. When people left they never, ever came back. He didn't want Seamus to be gone forever and ever. "Do you promise a double forever pirate oath that I can come to visit?"