"Being alone is awful," Soldat agrees with a kind of gentle fervor. "I should have pushed more, too. I'm glad you came." After Javert had moved in and there was just one bedroom left, it really seemed like it needed to happen, if just to complete the little family of people Soldat needed to keep close. But it had taken some prodding before Sora finally agreed.

They should have prodded harder. Sora shouldn't have been so alone out there, for so long, at the Landmark.