[ The inflection in those two words has Minato falling silent, realization settling. Fire that could burn through everything... not just magic, or paper, or other flammables, but everything- flesh and bone and absolutely everything. How would it feel not to be able to touch somebody you loved? To have to be so careful around other people all the time, terrified that you'd hurt them? It'd be enough to cause somebody to want to lock themselves away, to protect the rest of the world from themselves, those sorts of thoughts...

They're incredibly lonely thoughts. He hopes Daylight's dad had found a better solution than that. ]

I hope he's out there, exploring to his heart's content. The universe is a big place and all. [ There's a lot of space out there in the universe, and it's lonely out there too. At least Daylight's dad had a starship, the people in them. ]

We should probably get going too. This lake's already so big.