[He'd like to offer good thoughts, weary of dwelling in misery and the loss he feels too strongly when disappearances happen like this, but he won't lie to her, either. On the other hand, it isn't as if she hasn't heard a lot of this before. Sometimes the hardest part is admitting that he's still struggling with the same issues over and over- that her encouragement helps (and it does, truly) but it's a healing salve over a wound that likes to reopen when he least expects it, or when moments like this come along and a fresh cut tears across his heart, and he remembers.]

It's... scary, I guess. Having people care about you enough to hurt themselves for your sake. Even if it isn't my fault [!!!] it's still heavy to carry that around.

[He'd always known it was a thing, Ignis having pledged himself to Noctis so young, Gladio being assigned as his Shield when they were kids, the vows required to get Prompto into the Crownsguard or power the myriad of Kingsglaive recruited to protect his family. Hearing about it and seeing it in practice feels very different, though, and he hates it even more than he did growing up.]