[He actually winces. Because once again, there's an inadvertent feedback loop. Another step back. Trying not to think of all the flashes of his own failures. Not to remember in more detail having to leave them all behind and --]
[You deserve so much more than that -- except... he wonders if that's true. He's wondered that since he remembered that day in the Arena. Since those words echoed through his head in front of the cryo pod. If he really deserved 'better', deserved 'more', then why did it get to him so badly? Why couldn't he save Pidge's family? Save Allura? Why--]
[Maybe it flickers through his head, but he shoves it aside. Shoves it down and doesn't comment on it. He doesn't know if he could argue, if he tried.]
[So instead, he just wordlessly accepts the contact. Nodding, ever so slightly.]
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[You deserve so much more than that -- except... he wonders if that's true. He's wondered that since he remembered that day in the Arena. Since those words echoed through his head in front of the cryo pod. If he really deserved 'better', deserved 'more', then why did it get to him so badly? Why couldn't he save Pidge's family? Save Allura? Why--]
[Maybe it flickers through his head, but he shoves it aside. Shoves it down and doesn't comment on it. He doesn't know if he could argue, if he tried.]
[So instead, he just wordlessly accepts the contact. Nodding, ever so slightly.]
That's... that's all I need.