For once, every single one of Aventurine's connections had failed him.

You had gone missing in a blizzard on a faraway planet, one that would certainly kill you (he had worked it out in his head, the window for you to return was rapidly shrinking). He was so certain of this in the way that his heart had already began to sink in that all too familiar deep grief of a connection he'd never have again. With odds like this...

This was not a gamble he was willing to make.