[ She summed it up way back on that first day, didn't she? Everyone wants to fall in love. There are things - people, memories, a life free some loneliness and a place where she can outlive everyone - which matter more than anyone else here. More than all the human bats, more than those gods, more than Aligula and... yes, it has to be more than Sayaka and Rin and Adelina and Susan and the others.

It's been a month, a month isn't worth the same as blood, and the ties she has to that blood.

... But similarly, a granddaughter's happiness isn't worth a species.

She's gotten far, far too old. ]

You've got people you're making promises like that to, other than me? [ It's said with some mild surprise, but . . . ] Good. Like I said, you're making it out alive from here.