"When I came back, something Sand said made sense, but I didn't know how. I left it alone. Then a dream started clicking things for me, but I lost it too quickly. Some are better at reading the signs than others. I know now there's folks that see way more than me.

"What you keep forgetting is that you're good at taking care of people. You made the skills, not the other way around. You can weather 'different.' How else would you have survived life on base?"