Gladio offers a smile back. He's here for you, young man. But the other part...

"So not the sort that you get them every night. Just sometimes. But they're shit. Back home people do what they can to avoid them. Or they did, because the apocalypse."

Though he winces at the idea of a boyfriend going back. Noctis went back to death too.

"There's always that fear here. I find the most important thing is just taking every day as you get it."