"Wouldn't'a lasted much longer," Daryl admits, not looking up from his squirrel. Maybe Wash would have, being an Alien and all, but Daryl... he would have died, or found a way to get himself killed. He's far away from it enough now that he can recognize that for what he was doing.

"Why'd you leave?" No one does anything out of the kindness of their heart, and he wants to think Wash isn't dumb enough to jump into it for the idealism. Not that the queen's dumb, but that's... a different kind of choice. One only she can make and not seem like a naive teenager.