"Yeah. I know." Not about the clone, that made him wince, glad that Conner couldn't see his face. "You're not perfect, son. I think you're amazing and even I know that." He rubbed his back, folding his body into the most comfortable position he could find. "It was a bad day, but you did your best. Who could ask for more of you except for you? And yeah, we shook things up there good and proper, but they needed to be shook. They'd stagnated to the point that they needed an explosion to wake them up. We left them with a lot of good heads, maybe not level heads, but good people."