Now updated with Chapter 7: Ray is back on the Waverider, so finally some of the comfort part of the hurt/comfort. This story follows thematically from the two earlier stories in the series, “Nice and Weird” and “To Feel the Way That Every Child Should”–and those have plenty more comfort as well.
The next word out of Hermann’s mouth shocked Newt so profoundly that for a moment he considered the possibility that he might have been wrong all along. Maybe Hermann wasn’t a pompous, prissy, egomaniacal number slave all the time after all.
That word was, “ … together.”
Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization, p. 284