It's been a lot a challenges back-to-back yes. [He'd ask how you're holding up, but he figures that's where this is likely already going.]

Tell him in your own way Vandal, that's how it'll feel most sincere. The more of us who do, the more he'll believe it. 

[His voice is gentle and kind, and only gets more so after your next words. Worry tightens his face: fatalism was really going around the people he cared about recently.]

Vandal...  

[And now he just wants to hug you, but barring that, he'll reach out and brush a thumb over your shoulder, if you don't discourge him.]

 Yes I will. I promise to take care of him. ... Will you do the same for me? [Because Wing's already failed there twice before now.]