[ Gil allows his chin to be held this way, curious more than anything where Rau is going with this if anywhere. It's certainly gentler than just pushing him away, which Rau would have been within his rights to do. Gil knows he's being very clingy today. He died, he deserves the indulgence. Probably. ]

Hm, was it now? I recall someone telling me that a path not taken is a path that simply does not exist. That it was pointless to wonder 'what if I had done this or that instead'.

[ This time it's Gil who is deflecting a little. It's hard to deny that he has imagined it often, that ideal life he could have lived where he met none of the people who would cause him such immense pain. ]