The tug on his hand got his attention and knelt down so he was on Dimitri's level, something his father never would have done, put himself on the same level as a child.

The question, innocently asked and with so much riding on it, brought a lump to Lex's throat. This fog was the cruelest thing the island had ever devised, that much he knew.

His first instinct was to lie, to tell Dmitri that everything would be alright, but he could not lie to this child, even if he was an apparition.

"We will stay until the island rips us away. But know that if we could, we would never leave you again. I swear it."