"If it was me - and while your world might have some differences, unless they were substantial, it was close enough to me - I wouldn't have let you." Gentle, but merciless. He knows himself, has had three years - a lot longer than the Ren in front of him - to reflect on how it all went wrong. "And even if there was something you could have done - who does it help now, to wallow in guilt about it?"