"C'mere..." He put his arms around her as they sat on the floor together. He didn't have any kind of strategy prepared for this, because this didn't happen in the real world: you didn't just find out that someone you'd thought was dead had actually been taken away and put in some kind of induced coma. Alternative: she was awake the whole time, and They made her forget. You don't know. All he could do was sit with her, like in the story he'd told Marisa. All this beauty which is sinking into the earth. Give me your hand.
"I hate this place too," he said. "Naivety officially gone, this place is horrible. It's only been worse since you've been gone, too. Both because I didn't have you and because things have just been shittier. I'm just so glad I got you back, though. So much that I'm scared of it."