[He listens quietly, face impassive. When she finishes speaking though, he has to grin.]

I never said you had to forgive anything. Reaching past it though - that's a good step. This world's just like any other; you leave a wound open like that and it's going to poke at it.

When you can walk away [Not burying it forever, no; just leaving it when you have to] from something like that though, then you're doing good by her memory. I'm glad you didn't really need me to tell you that after all.

[It's that not-quite civilian quality again. He needs to get used to the idea that she never seems to be just one or the other.]