I wish I could tell you it was all pleasant, but things aren't so great there. War is a very ugly thing, Sieglinde-san, but I hardly need to tell you that.

It would have been more responsible to insist I be sent back, but I thought I could figure out a way to turn the tides if I had more time. [And that was his excuse for moving on with Hathaway too. There's always an excuse. Always a problem to be solved.]