Fighting hard? Maybe... I just... I feel like there's so much I have to prove sometimes. Well, okay, lately a lot less.

[He thinks back to the night he succumbed to the tempation of the Wings.]

I really messed up that night and ever since then, all I've wanted to do is make sure I never make those mistakes ever again. I don't ever want to let anyone down again.

[He doesn't voice the other things.

I don't want any of you to have to bury me before I'm old. I don't want any of the people I love getting hurt because of my stupidity.

He shakes his head, because he's going to that place again, where his confidence is shaken and his resolve destroyed.]

So yeah, maybe I needed this. Thanks, Brig.

[He narrows his eyes at Brigade for a scant minute.]

Something else on your mind, though? We didn't climb up this high just for me, did we?