You can both come with us. [The words slip out before he even thinks about the many implications of that. He can't just invite people to Tai. He's not sure how to get back there, he doesn't know what awaits them there and even if he did. Tai is not a wealthy or even stable land. Not to mention that a kirin couldn't decide who got citizenship. He wasn't even a citizen of Tai himself, when it came down to it.

But he speaks quickly, letting both of them hug him as tight as they wanted, his own hands moving soothingly, trying to give them both comfort at the same time.]

Because I'm glad I got to know you as well and I don't want... I don't want you to be unhappy.

It goes against everything he is to allow suffering to happen. And letting these two go back to places... go back to nothing, go back to a future they had no part in... That would be suffering indeed.]