[The reality is that he doesn't take comfort in the fact that their failures are behind him; it's simply what he tells himself to keep looking forward, to keep pressing on. But it leaves its mark across his mind, indelible, as if failures will forever define him more than successes.

Thanks for that, Amanda.]

You shouldn't feel that way, Lucina. There might be things you don't know, but you're quick to adapt and learn. You're level-headed when it counts. And none of us here are completely prepared for what the next day might bring us -- much less the next mission.

So please, don't feel ignorant. I... wish things had turned out differently. I do not like feeling as if I've 'come up short', as it were, or have failed. It goes against what I am.

[A beat.]

But, I suppose, we can only do better in the future.

[If only he could feel good about simply moving on.]