"Yeah." It's something she's known, and known with great certainty, for a long time. Hearing Wash suggest it is better than getting the lecture, but she still shrugs it off a little for that fact. (Even the maturest of eighteen-year-olds is still eighteen.) "But you can't just do it because somebody says that. You have to do it for you."

What they always say isn't what got through to her when she was sure life wasn't worth it anymore. She had to figure it out for herself.

"But you know that," she adds, because he probably doesn't need to be told any of this, either. Nobody who ends up in a war needs to, she's starting to think.