[It's only in that moment of staring that Altius realizes why comparing Dante to a timepiece might not have been the best idea, and he offers an apologetic sigh.]

Only the colors, I meant.

[Is it strange that he doesn't even think of their head as a clock anymore...? Or maybe he's just that tired.]

I wouldn't be surprised if it was drawn from my memory, but would it be any stranger than us disappearing and ending up here?

[Unlike most anyone else, he'll allow Dante to hold it if they like. If they don't take it, after a moment he'll turn the watch over to the inscription: a message of support he hadn't really met at the time, signed with the name Rion. Some of his exhaustion seems to come through as he reads it again. How things have changed...]

Perhaps it will return along with me, as others supposedly have been.