It doesn't sound like you were as doomed as you thought you were. [ A slight smile, a softness in his eyes. ] It seems like you're very good at finding a way forward, from wherever the hell it is that you end up.
[ Whichever choice he makes. Wash is reaching for that to try and comfort him because it's a little true of himself, in a way. He screws up, he makes mistakes, he gets things wrong and has his plans backfire, but still somehow forward, ever forward -- until that is, ah, when he doesn't. When he gives up. When he can't find a way through.
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It doesn't sound like you were as doomed as you thought you were. [ A slight smile, a softness in his eyes. ] It seems like you're very good at finding a way forward, from wherever the hell it is that you end up.
[ Whichever choice he makes. Wash is reaching for that to try and comfort him because it's a little true of himself, in a way. He screws up, he makes mistakes, he gets things wrong and has his plans backfire, but still somehow forward, ever forward -- until that is, ah, when he doesn't. When he gives up. When he can't find a way through.
The sentiment's there, regardless. ]