[They are more similar than Robert could have ever thought. So similar, and yet so different; such different reasons, such different situations, and yet with striking parallels - painful mirror images, each a reflection of each other's failures. It's enough to make the ache in his chest triple itself.

It is only the second time that Robert has ever admitted it aloud.]

N-No... I... I-I wanted to tell you, I w-wanted you to know...

[... But Helios... Helios' mistake led to Elise's death... no wonder it was never something he spoke about. Somehow, though, Robert can't feel anything but sympathy; can't feel anything but the knowledge that Helios is like him....]

... H-Helios... i-if, if I had known... th-then, then I would... w-would have helped. I... I would have... [- his throat clenches a moment; tears threaten to fall.] ... d-done anything...

Th-this, this is something... s-something I can take away, awhile...

[And perhaps, in some sick way, it can be penitence for him.]

I m-made mistakes too. A-And, and I was never... p-punished for them...

... There is... o-one... d-difference between us. You... you did not do anything to hurt E-Elise... on purpose.

I... I d-deliberately left Benjamin, because... the d-drugs...

[He trails off, ashamed of himself and his words. What will Helios think of him? (Could he have guessed? Did he figure it out already?)]