[ he gestures a little with his hand. yes. go ahead. show him somewhere else. he'll default to their lead or he truly will just wander into whatever the next open room is. ]

Then...maybe it's not all that bad. You're a pretty good person now, so if all of that brought you here...[ he shrugs. ] Growth doesn't always come the way we want it to. But maybe the results really are always the same.

[ becoming stronger people. things like that. ]