[The smile Jaime offers Kaidan is thin, humourless, because this is about more than just Ken, even if he's the person at the front of his mind. Perhaps he wouldn't be saying this if he could look into the future to see that Kaidan too will lose someone important, but he's not thinking that far ahead. Sure, he knows factually the Kaidan is statistically likely to lose someone along the way, but it's not something he's actively thinking about now.]

It's what I usually tell people whenever this happens, [he admits.] And looking at the stats, they're all there, but it's no guarantee. I've known lots of people who've left after this long. And... well, they haven't come back either. I'm not saying I've lost hope or anything, but after enough of them go, it's stupid to just hope they'll come back for more than a month.