She nodded firmly, her expression grave. "We did do our best. There was just..." Her arms tightened around the assortment of gear she was picking for herself to distract, now that she had settled on going with her own Blue Team. "There wasn't too much we could do. Some things in life are inevitable, it doesn't matter how much we wish or how hard we try, we have to accept them as they are."

Being unable to provide for A-Yuan as adults should had been one of these inevitabilities. It had simply hurt.

"You were able to give him a life we never could, even if we had lived." And yes, that stung in a way - but it was another inevitability.