[ That should be it, they should just be dropping it and moving on, but Jesse doesn't step out of his way and instead, he's looking at him and offering sympathy and Daryl has to swallow and nod just for the sake of doing something. He hasn't been talking about it with anyone because he'd wanted to avoid moments like this, but Jesse has a way of prying things out of him, he's realizing. He can be all too convincing when he wants to be.

But maybe he understands a little better now why Daryl has somewhere else he needs to be. ]

So when I left. [ Into the void, into disaster. ] It wasn't that...

[ That he'd necessarily wanted to leave him, or even that he hadn't considered taking him along. It was all just so much more complicated than he'd been able to put into words. It still is. ]

I've just gotta find him, y'know? To bring him back to his family. Like I promised I would.

[ But he reaches out and squeezes Jesse by the shoulder, his way of saying that he doesn't blame him for asking. ]