[ daylight sends a grateful look keith's way when he feels the comforting weight on his shoulder. it's silly but- but it's comforting. enough that the glow returns to daylight's optics, the colour shifting from bleached white to a more hopeful blue.

he manages a smile, trying to rekindle his hope. ]

Yeah! We're in this together and we're working together. That's a real good start for any mission and we... we have resources and abilities and stuff like that. We can do this.

[ they have to do this. they've got to save everyone here.

daylight tries to distract himself from thinking the ominous or else and a chance pops up when he finally realises that keith looks... very different from the last time they've met. ]

What happened?? Are you okay? You look- [ how to politely say 'messed up' to a friend? ] -like you've been through a lot.