( She was not prepared for the anger. Maybe, all things considered, she should have been. It takes her a second to find her words. )

I'm sorry, okay, I get it. I screwed up. ( Muttered in a breath, ) Big surprise.

( And that is a decidedly horrible thing to say, on two levels. ) Hope doesn't mean you aren't careful, it just—

( Nothing she says seems like it'll be convincing in the wake of being very ready to die in the Fade, and the realisation makes her deflate. ) Hope is what makes us keep going at all. If you didn't hope then you wouldn't keep trying.