Luna did not release him easily and when she did she stepped back to stand up tall and give him The Look. It was a look of knowing and understanding. Many things in her own life had been torn apart well before the island, and the island did not make life easy. So Luna, for all of her struggles socially, knew very well the feelings at odds within him. Or at least she assumed she did.
"We will make it work," she said while reaching for his hand. "That is the resiliency of this place; everyone makes it work. It sometimes is messy and sometimes is flawed but it always works out in the end."