I'll warn you if I can. It's possible a departure will be precipitous, and I'd prefer not to make you a promise I can't keep.

[Yuan's sorry he can't make it, but it's better to be honest with Zelos. He drops his hand to drape over Zelos's shoulders again.]

But coming back... that's a promise.

[A compromise, really, but the best one he can offer, for right now. Eventually that will change.]

[Right now Yuan has a Pope to visit.]