[For a moment, Faize looks briefly confused. Is the ghost visit over already? He has no way of knowing without the floating star to act as a visual aid. At least until he feels that pressure on his lips, anyway. His eyes go wide for a moment, because he knows there's only one person who would do that to identify themselves.]

[...and then his eyes start welling up with tears. Even Faize couldn't tell you if he's really, really happy or really, really sad at the moment. Because he was both hoping for and dreading something like this happening at the same time. So maybe the answer is both.]

[But he's not actually going to cry, dammit, he did enough of that Sunday night during and after Sadie's execution. And he definitely does not want to cry about Alisha in front of Alisha. Just...nope. No. So he hastily wipes his eyes on his sleeve, keeping his head down as he does so.]

Alisha, I... [He pauses. He told Hinata he'd wait to do this till they figured out a way to bring the ghosts back from half dead to fully alive, but...well, he hadn't counted on a solo ghost encounter before then. And he can't very well put off apologizing in favor of a normal conversation, that would just be a little weird. But he can't really tell her to go away either. Nor does he want to, for that matter.] I'm sorry. I should have gone with you, I didn't mean to... I mean I--

[He inhales deeply and wipes more vigorously at his eyes. Come on, you're upset but keep it together here. Don't start rambling brokenly.]

...I'm sorry that I couldn't protect you.