No. [ This at least, he sounds firm in. ]

I will come back, after the initial reaction has calmed. But I can't return to Goldenrod. I'll have to find a place to live, somewhere else.

[ But he didn't know many places. In one way, he wanted to run as far away from Goldenrod as he could and never look back. In another, Goldenrod was...not home, but a place he was familiar with. He knew the routes around the city. There were people there he had returned to see, like Manaka...he wanted to apologise but couldn't find the words. ]