Did he? He chokes back the urge to laugh, but it spills over, bubbling out of him in a mad, helpless deluge. He doesn't feel like he overcame anything at all.

"I'll see them all again," he says once he calms, staring blankly at the darkness stretching out before him. "When the world ends."

A glimmer of light in the dark. A sprite pops out to an array of sparkling motes. It bobs in place then weaves ahead, halting and bobbing again until they follow. It will lead them to the crystals they must take back to repair the mirror.