Mm. [Abel looks back up at the sky, distracted by memory.] You're right about that. I'd never been so close to dying in my entire life before I started flying with the Alliance. I like to think that I grew braver in spite of it. [He snorts.] Or I went crazy.

I don't know how important it is here, but if I could teach one lesson from my time as a soldier it would be that you never know what's going to happen from minute to minute. So don't put anything off. ...Or you might find yourself thrown hundreds of years into the future with people you've never met before, wearing a medical gown and trying not to trip and fall. [As an extremely amusing, completely random example.]