[There's a sharp intake of breath and then a long silence. I was afraid you'd say that.
Newt tries to say something a few times, decides against at least three replies, and finally says:]
I'm sorry.
[How? Why? When? The fight to not ask is a tough one, because answers and information are EVERYTHING and he doesn't know how to be sensitive to others' feelings, really.]
...I'm really sorry. They sound like they were good people.
[Some of the wind goes out of his sails here. He's not even sure how to respond to that. Were they good people? Is that even his call to make? What happened in those months brought out the very worst in all of them - or anyway, in those of them lucky(?) enough to last that long. But he's included in that, too. He's lost the right to judge.]
... Mm. [For a moment, that's all he's got. He's already starting to regret being mean about it. Newt's his friend. The man's only curious because Qubit's spent an entire year staunchly refusing to tell him anything whatsoever about himself.
That really ought to change. But he chooses his words very carefully. It's a delicate subject.]
... We were facing an apocalypse. By the end, all life on Earth would have been wiped out within three generations. Ultimately we managed to stop it, but... at a cost that redefines the word "pyrrhic." Over a billion dead, including ... most of the Paradigm. Kaidan, Gilgamos and I were the only ones left.
Tony was... Tony was the one who put a stop to it. But it cost him his life. [That's not the whole truth - he's leaving out the part where Tony caused it in the first place, and had to be essentially tricked into that final act of sacrifice - but it's technically correct.]
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Newt tries to say something a few times, decides against at least three replies, and finally says:]
I'm sorry.
[How? Why? When? The fight to not ask is a tough one, because answers and information are EVERYTHING and he doesn't know how to be sensitive to others' feelings, really.]
...I'm really sorry. They sound like they were good people.
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... Mm. [For a moment, that's all he's got. He's already starting to regret being mean about it. Newt's his friend. The man's only curious because Qubit's spent an entire year staunchly refusing to tell him anything whatsoever about himself.
That really ought to change. But he chooses his words very carefully. It's a delicate subject.]
... We were facing an apocalypse. By the end, all life on Earth would have been wiped out within three generations. Ultimately we managed to stop it, but... at a cost that redefines the word "pyrrhic." Over a billion dead, including ... most of the Paradigm. Kaidan, Gilgamos and I were the only ones left.
Tony was... Tony was the one who put a stop to it. But it cost him his life. [That's not the whole truth - he's leaving out the part where Tony caused it in the first place, and had to be essentially tricked into that final act of sacrifice - but it's technically correct.]