[ Hearing just that much, that old familiar refrain, needling him about sleep...he feels something inside crack. He's missed him. God, he thought he knew how much he missed him until this moment.

But now isn't the time to reminisce. He doesn't know how much time he has. So he steels himself and nods. ]

I can't tell you everything. I don't know what will change, what will screw things up irrevocably. But a few years from now, on a backwater planet in the middle of nowhere, you and your friends...the Reds and the Blues...you save an entire population of people.

[ There's a pause, and when he continues, a quiet hitch in his breath. ]

And you give your lives to do it.