"It wasn't a waste."

Anwei's eyes were wet as she looked at the yelling pony. She'd worked with Punchy for how long? And barely got to know him, excepting for the occasional odd slang phrase about her personal attributes. Then she's been gone into the pods, and returned - and he'd been snatched away from her, away from all of them, falling forever into blue light.

"Not one minute you spent with him was a waste."