"Well... not really," he says. "If I hadn't... they..."

He has to pause and consider this, because the memory of it is a terrifying mess.

"If we both hadn't been there... they hurt him really bad, and one of them was about to get me, but he caught them by surprise, and..." He holds Peridot a little bit tighter. It was, in some ways, more visceral than the fights from back home. "I don't think either of us could have made it, alone."

Which, as far as he knows, is exactly what Peridot was.