[Dio stutters momentarily. Nearly a year? How long had it been from Speedwagon's perspective? She's suffered alone for that long?

His lips squirm. He strangles them back into a workable shape.] I know. I can never hope to fathom how you have felt in all the years you've had to live with that memory. And with... everything else, too.

[He swallows thickly.]