[Patience, clarity— all of it sits at an unfortunate all time low in Ren's mind: he's so fixated on regaining Cathaway's discarded admiration that his already thin skin chafes at the slightest sign of perceived (or imagined) hostility. In other words, he's even tetchier than normal.]
You're new.
[An odd segue, but a tempered one at least. It's fairly obvious he's at least attempting to swallow down his own vitriol.]
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You're new.
[An odd segue, but a tempered one at least. It's fairly obvious he's at least attempting to swallow down his own vitriol.]
You haven't seen what it means to fail a mission.