Of course they're not supposed to. That doesn't change anything. [The ones you love ought to have the decency to stay. They just never do. The rope is so easily cut. Kanaya's volume has gotten less low and controlled, because she knows how much less abstract the next question is to her]

What I mean to ask: is there anyone else left who matters to you in this sorry excuse for an army? Or are - were - they the last ones? If they are, you can rest in the knowledge that this is over, and can't happen again. [If they aren't... you get this sort of phone call, apparently, and feel dubious degrees of lucky.]