[If she wants him to look her in the eye, look her in the eye he will. He's not entirely comfortable with the topic, but her backbone induces his own backbone, and he looks at her flatly, unimpressed.

(It's similar, he thinks, to his own situation, in a lot of ways. The words she says echo a lot of the things he himself felt. So really, when he responds, it's almost like he's responding to himself.)]

And yet you were useless here. [Ouch.] Not only that, but you actively got in my way, and almost got yourself killed as well.

I won't presume to know your struggles, but I will observe what is troublesome in my path.