I'll forget nothing and go nowhere. Even if I can do nothing else, I'm not merely going to leave you alone with this darkness again.

[With one hand, he reaches up to run his fingers through Ardyn's hair. His plea is just the opposite - ]

Stay. Stay here and let me be your safety a while longer. I'm not so foolish as to think that you're the same person this side of two thousand years, but you are still Ardyn, and these last weeks have been maddening without you.