I said it didn't matter how it happened.

[not that she didn't matter.]

The ones who die every day back in the facility are people with lives, too, but that's never made any difference in how it happens.

[it's mostly the same tired, defeated tone as usual, but-- there's a bitter edge in it.]

I helped drag her out of the water, and tried to help stop her bleeding. She was gonna be okay.

...And then she died anyway. Same as it always is.