[Despite it being Sebek's job to defend him, Malleus wants nothing more than for Sebek to NOT have to endure something like Reverie was in Malleus' stead. As much as he missed Silver, Sebek, and Lilia, there is a not insignificant portion of Malleus that is glad that they were not there, that he never had to watch them fall in those elevators, that he never had to worry about how best to protect them when they all turned into ravenous beasts.]

... I took it with grace. Please do not wish such things upon yourself.

[He shakes his head then.]

Vil and I were there. We bonded over the course of our time spent... There were some others, but none which are here now.