[The problem is that Hannibal is impossible to escape, if she goes back; Ben knows that. He must either be run from or eliminated, and Ben's training has a decisive answer for that. His heart, though, would lead him in an entirely different direction. It would also be the direction completely opposite from any world with Hannibal in it.

Instead, he nods, and cranes his neck back to look back down at her.]

I know that was a concern of yours at one point. It is valid, and this would be the easiest way to give yourself that, if you intend to make a place for yourself in your world.

[An endorsement, but there's a note of something else there, too. Not quite sadness, but related to it, faint and fleeting.]