"You're alive...!"
One day, a part of what was lost returned to the former thief. Everything was still guilt and horror and it all happened in the middle of a simmering war; something returned. Something more than loss. Something the plane that killed the thief had not kept. But somehow it had been mere days for the returned one but a decade for the dead thief.
It's probably not healthy. It probably won't last. But then again: what does?