I don't know what's on their agenda. War does funny things to people; you know that, Doctor, you've seen war before. You've seen some of the things people do during war that they would never do at any other time. And they're playing with the lives of people I care about Doctor. I-

[The words were heated, more so than the emotion he'd shown before, but now he cuts off. He doesn't want to be angry at the Doctor, and not this Doctor. Who'd been there for him, who's also lost people. But he doesn't know what else to be right now. There's anger, there's emptiness, and there's- no, there's just angry and emptiness. And he doesn't want to be angry at this man. The deep breath he takes is audible, and then he takes a drink before he speaks again.]

Grief does funny things to a person too. [Empty. Empty is good. Empty is better than the alternative.]