[Maybe he shouldn't have changed the subject. He's worried for a minute-- but then Dan Heng says that, and Blade realizes he has been holding his breath.

Ah...]

I don't know if I can choose when 'it' happens. If it was as easy as issuing some kind of challenge, I would have fought it a hundred times over already...

[He's quiet for a long moment, and then he says:]

... When that time comes, I'll trust you. If anyone can lead me out of that place, it's you.

[After all, Blade followed him everywhere before. But this time it'll be for their survival, and not the sake of a misguided obsession.]