[Kratos looks away, back out onto the street.]

Hope hasn't been my friend in a very long time.

[He'd tried -- he'd tried hard. He hadn't done enough, it seems, while hoping; and the day he'd realised the truth of Mithos's plans, how far his student had fallen, hope had become ashes. Even with Anna ...

[Even with Anna, life had been snatching at an existence only in his dreams, one he knew would never last. Something to be treasured because there was no hope to come after it; because he'd abandoned the worlds to be with her to begin with.]