No, gods that's not-- [They didn't just give up.] We wanted to buy some time, keep the Hunger at bay for a little bit longer so we could, I dunno, find a way to actually win.

[He doesn't know how to tell her that it kept getting worse, that the scouts kept finding them more easily, that every cycle became riskier, more terrifying.]

And it was never our jobs. I signed up for a cool trip across the planes, not the fucking apocalypse.