At that question, Mingyu was silent for a long while. At first, he'd done it because he'd hoped to make progress here, for if and when he returned to the place where he still needed to get Fox back. But after learning he would retain nothing of his time here, why did he⁠—

"...I don't know what else to do with myself," he confessed quietly, gaze dropping to the floor.

"It's who I am now. It's almost all I am anymore. I'm nothing without you. Just this."