"I trust you'll have something better later." Other than this fake wine, anyway, which they will partake in, because what else is there to drink here. Angelo pours him a generous amount. He wishes this was made more interesting with actual wine, but that's not the kind of company they have here.

As for staying, Angelo shrugs. "Anything can be your choice if the circumstance allows for it, and you let it."

What difference does it make? Whether in a place full of supernatural horror, or a place filled with the realities of war - sometimes people choose to stay in a place they will die and be tormented in because there is nowhere else to be at home in. Though Angelo can only speak in such terms because he doesn't live on his own time; he lives on his Captain's time, and even far away from him everything he does is done with the consideration of how his Captain would react to it.

"Have you any plans after? I might meet up with some of my classmates and see what they're up to."