Yeah. It's a weird, hard balance to strike, but... I just hope I can make any kind of positive influence on them by the time they graduate.

[That's fair, and also true, however, Rean would probably try to do it alone or something stupid like that. More people should go fuck up HIVE, but maybe not this particular moron.]

...Yeah, it sure does. [...Rean sounds like he Knows™.] But you're right about that.

...Someone once told me something similar. To keep going forward, relentlessly; without looking back.

It's a lot easier said than done, and I'm sure you know that, too. But it's really all you can do, is to try.