Can't keep a good woman down, Miranda. [She knows Miranda might not take that description of herself so easily, but right now she doesn't care. She can tell that there's pain in there, in the grim absence of an answering smile, and she's determined to fill that absence for both of them. Enough damn optimism to last.]

I got it. Yeah. He told me what happened. [Her voice softens.] You did something brave. I wish those always worked out. [She's not expecting that to be a comfort, definitely not for Miranda, for whom things are supposed to work out. It's more like an opener. For some of her crew, it's easy to reach out and prop them up, but Miranda's always needed to hold herself up first of everything. Shepard's ready for that.

She hopes it's still the right thing to do.]