There's pain on their professor's face, even as she nods at the girls.

"It would be for the best. I wish I had a better answer, or could do more but I will have to take care of things after you are both gone. It will not be pretty, I suspect. If I thought taking others with you would help, I would ask but let me just say this. If you see others after you leave, or while you're leaving, know you are not the only ones I have spoken to tonight."

He sighs, pinching the bridge of her nose for a moment.

"It isn't what should be done but it's the best I can do."