[Thanatos only shakes his head and as much as he tries to keep his expression unreadable the sense of loss is already written clearly across his face. He's done this before, he can do it again, but that doesn't mean that it's any easier to bear.

Zagreus, if he remembered being here at all, would not be able to reach him by any deliberate means. But it isn't something he wants to argue about when it seems that the time they have left together is already rapidly drawing to a close.]

You won't be able to reach me here. [The death god tells him gently, but firmly. He moves one of his hands up to cup it along the line of Zagreus' jaw. A tender motion he does not ever recall doing in the House. He thinks he understands, now. What all of this was really for.] So before you go, I need to tell you... I love you, Zag, and I'm only sorry it took me so long to see it. That it took me so long to see what was always standing right in front of me.

[And then he smiles, very faintly.]

I know you'd fight to find me here again if you could. It's one thing that keeps me going.