I know... it could be something worse. It could be nothing, and you could--

[Be gone? He won't finish that sentence, so he lets it drift away with a quiet sigh.]

It'll be okay... somehow, it will. Just... just keep talking to me. I'm here, and I'm not going anywhere.

[He's not holding the device quite as tightly as he'd like to be holding Neil-- he'd probably hurt himself if he were-- but he is clutching it close to him.]