[ It's not that here is better than home for so many of them. But somehow, she feels like she can actually breathe here. But she's got people she loves, she's got people from home. Even with Eric here, if the rest of them went, she'd feel pretty lost too. But she wants to make sure that Eric doesn't get that way, that he doesn't lose heart. ]
It has to be, [ she insists softly and yet there's a firmness to her voice that says that he better believe in her because she means what she says.] It will be okay. It might take some time but it will be. And in the mean time, she could come back.