[And then there's Xayah, who thinks nature "got angry" and took it out on them. Soldat makes the decision not to bring that up. It won't help anyone feel better.]

Not meaningless.

[Pointless is definitely not the same as meaningless, and they're never going to say that any of those lives lost were meaningless.]

They were people. Good people. We'll remember them.

[They have another gulp of their drink, and suggest,]

Tell us about Mollymauk. He was your friend from before. Yeah?