[Kanaya has thought, several times, that a real masterless tool would rust on a shelf... or in a corner somewhere. Peko's disagreement alone is a sign of life, something she has to actively spin together from memory. The skips in the broken record are even more promising. Kanaya has to keep these things in mind, because at first when Peko completely dismisses the possibility of any importance outside her own, her face falls. She's meddling. She doesn't belong here - she shouldn't even be haunting these dead. She's a hypocrite of the highest order--

And she has to calm down because she learned long ago that in life, there is no right answer, just the best one.]

Being nothing does feel pretty awful. To completely fail... [Maybe her wife should be giving the "failed as a warrior" speech. Annie probably isn't in the mood, though.] To do exactly what you were supposed to, and fail anyway - are you supposed to throw up your hands and say "I did my best" and stop? Does that even accomplish your original purpose?

You're not going to get very far thinking "I should have stayed dead" or "I deserved to die for what I did" or "I'm dead when I get back there". That isn't really what happened here, in the natural sense. We have to think about the results' implications for us rather than what they happened to look like.

[Does that make sense? Not a whole lot, she's sure. The island lifestyle of mutual killing still probably matters in Peko's mind, and Sonia's not here to ease her into the reasons she should have hope for that place.]