"It's as if they were planning to hurt all of you, or worse..." Endrance's expression grew serious for a moment. He hadn't thought himself lucky at all to wake up in this place during the end of the day, but at least people had been here...and people that knew what was going on. "I wouldn't wish that on anyone." The words surprised him, too. This place was forcing him to open up, little by little, but it was still a little strange nonetheless. It wasn't an apology for what had happened, no, but that wouldn't have been the right thing to say, either.

He turned toward Alkaid then, a frown on his face. That wasn't fair, either. In his opinion, the one thing you were supposed to do for someone you cared about - more than anything else - was to protect them. If you couldn't do that, you shouldn't call yourself a friend at all. "That...it's shameful of them," Endrance said. "After all...if you aren't looking out for someone you care about, can you really call yourself their friend?" There was something else in that statement, too - an implication that if he'd known anything himself, he would have looked out for her. It would have been what Haseo would want, and...that brought the topic around to him again.

This time, there wasn't any way to keep from blushing bright pink - not when Alkaid had just blurted the question like that. He looked away a moment later, but...there was really no sense in hiding it, was there?

"That word isn't strong enough for how I feel. It's something I can't even express in words..." A few more petals drifted by. "I'd do anything at all for him, he needs only to ask me..."