No, I don't suppose there is. At least my bad week brightened yours.

But he stabilized? Still...why would Peter take him? Where would he take him? I was cranky. I had cause to be. I'm calmer now. Mostly. Hiro and I still have a reckoning coming. And Victoria was about to kill Peter. I killed her in self-defense and defending him.

That was another mistake--this whole collegiate atmosphere. We needed a leader and they ought not to have thought they were in any position to take that control. Linderman and Bob never respected you as they should have. I would have. I do.

Yes, the irony of that kept me rather infuriated for a good couple of years.

But they could have had a leader. They could have fallen in line behind us, if we had...if you had taught them. Shown them what the world was. This culture of entitlement that has sprung up, that I see everywhere will cause this world's downfall more surely than anything I could ever bring about--what will be left will be a rudderless generation unfit for anything.

I agree. But they have a very bad habit of underestimating most people.