[ He lived through a war with losses on the scale of entire worlds. It's hard not to think that way. ]

They didn't. But if anything, in some ways it's good they struck so quickly. Sign of their desperation, which signals something about the state of the war as a whole -- and there wasn't any time for us to try and occupy the city.

[ There's that hollow log Miles has been steering them to, but Wash just stops there, turning to face him properly, his hands on his shoulders. ]

Either way, it's past. And whatever more we could have done, we can't, anymore.