[Their extensive search yielded little else but an awkward-shaped mushroom, a cluster of mysterious trees planted in a circle, and a great deal of Nothing. Ned, who is awkward about touching on the best of days, knows the crushing loneliness of losing one of the few people you care about, reaches out to rest a hand on Wirt's shoulder.
He cannot imagine that pain here, having that person, and then being left drifting in unfamiliarity.]
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[Their extensive search yielded little else but an awkward-shaped mushroom, a cluster of mysterious trees planted in a circle, and a great deal of Nothing. Ned, who is awkward about touching on the best of days, knows the crushing loneliness of losing one of the few people you care about, reaches out to rest a hand on Wirt's shoulder.
He cannot imagine that pain here, having that person, and then being left drifting in unfamiliarity.]
I'm sorry, Wirt.