Your happiness is a delicacy, isn't it? I want to see more and more of it. The joy that comes from meeting one another and choosing to be kind to one another is what makes Lilin so valuable. I love it.

[Slosh. Water is beading on them. Kaworu sets his cheek to Shinji's hair.] Let's go to the shore, Shinji-kun. [He pulls back enough to make room that they might move, but keeps his hands at Shinji's elbows, like a guide.] Will you trust me to bring you out of the water?