I'd say that's also a pretty safe bet.

[He's going to keep hold until Ardyn pulls away, because he hasn't yet, has perhaps even done just the opposite, and there is meaning, too, in this.]

I can't tell you what to do, except that for now you should keep doing this. Staying, with us, alive, and helping, until we're out of here. I don't have any answers, same as you, but maybe we can figure something out.