"She didn't know you were coming, Juni," Peter said. "She couldn't have known that." He wondered, not for the first time, whether there had been anything more he could've done to make Tuni happy here. He'd been confused and upset and dwelling on his own problems, but he had been trying to focus on her, on the fact that she needed him here. And then she'd been gone. "And she has no way of knowing that we miss her, either."
Because he did miss her, still. It just wasn't as much as he was supposed to miss her. He felt that he'd been left behind but he'd managed to stand on his own two feet and something-- pride, maybe-- made him want to keep standing there. He looked down at his own plate, though his appetite was gone now as well. "I do miss her, but I'm upset with her for leaving. And I don't know what to do about that, because I don't think she's coming back, and I don't think I'm going back home anytime soon, and I don't think I'd even remember what happened here when I did, which is a lot of the reason why I'm not ready to leave. It's not making me happy to keep wishing for the things I probably won't get to have here, so I'm just-- I'm trying to figure out how to deal with that."
He hadn't really meant to tell her quite as much as he'd actually said, but it seemed like every time he started talking about this, it all just came spilling out of him. He squeezed her hand and managed a smile for her. "I'm sorry, Juni. This is pretty complicated, isn't it? What it comes down to, princess, is that I'm staying here with you and we're going to figure out how to be happy here. Yeah?"