I don't even talk about what happened back then. The most I acknowledge it is when the Empire insists on some sort of display on anniversaries; it's something of a morbid thing we do in Zaphias, and I don't argue with it but I've made it clear not to discuss that time with me, for those that are morbidly curious.

[Literally everything about the war is off-limits for him with the citizenry; Schwann is an exception, Yeager can be an exception if he wants to be. But the idea of discussing anything that happened at that time with someone who wasn't there is...]

I was supposed to be there with you. I'm...sorry. About the fact that I wasn't.