Far more people don't think they can do anything. The reverse isn't the worst trait to have. Exhausting as it sounds.

[And lonely. Well, he knows a thing or two about that.

His hand curls lightly in Byerly's shirt, for lack of other occupation.]

...I don't think anything you could have done or known would have prevented this. There are worlds more advanced than yours - still gone. But-

[He almost asks-

And he thinks better of it. Shakes his head.]

But something of it survived. At least there's that. You.