[He's surprised for a moment, before carefully returning the hug]

Not here, but back home... There's a kid here called Ted, he's from the future of my world. From what he tells me, I'll be alone for at least fifty years, in the middle of nowhere.

[The concept terrifies him. He knows he has to do it, that it's his path to redemption. But it still terrifies him all the same]

But the kid...he fixes everything, all the damage I did. I had a seed, just one, and he'll plant it, and bring the trees back.