Empress Mileena had made him a proposal which he couldn't refuse, being the emissary to Zaterra was an important offer. But he knew that you weren't planning on returning to Outworld, not after everything that had happened to you and being an experiment by Shang Tsung. So your relationship became long distance, sometimes when Syzoth had time he'd come back to see you.

After almost two months without seeing each other, you could hold him in your arms, something both missed.

"Oh, I missed this."