[Jane and Aradia are probably the only ones his age he'd talk to via video or in-person at the moment. Still, it takes him a moment to pluck up the courage to answer back.

Jake doesn't look too great, understandably enough. He's hoping she'll not worry about it, but....]

I'll be alright. It just...got a little too much. Losing Jade and Dirk at roughly the same time, I mean.

[Gods, gods, if he loses Jane, too...he won't know what to do if that happens. And with Dirk's disappearance, that has become a highly terrifying prospect. He doesn't want to be alone without his three best friends like he was when he first came to Johto.]

I'm...sorry, too. That I had to deliver the bad news.