...I wasn't permitted to go to Tenebrae, when the king took Noct to Fenestala Manor and he first met her. I was ten years old and I had to stay home; they told me "do everything just as you would otherwise, as though Noct were still here", and at the time I thought that was meant as a comfort to me, but later I realized it was likely to disguise the fact that they'd left at all.

[Even now, he remembers how he'd hated being separated from Noct, thinking he was in trouble, having no way to help him. "Carry on as though he were still here"; if Noct dies to return the dawn, it's going to feel like that every day for the rest of his life.]

I can't imagine anyone who knows Noct even the slightest bit not wanting him to be happy.

[He falls quiet a minute, turning away just enough to stare out over the cobblestone street without really seeing it at all.]

There was no one to save her from her own destiny. Perhaps that's why she hopes Noct might yet be spared from his.