You’ll have to forgive him. You see, the loss wasn’t the urn itself. For my brother, it’s a matter of pride. And for our group, it’s a matter of reputation. What does it look like for us, to be handed a relatively simple retrieval job, only to mess it up so spectacularly?
It’s long in the past, of course. But it didn’t look very good at the time.
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[Honestly. He looks at Berna again.]
You’ll have to forgive him. You see, the loss wasn’t the urn itself. For my brother, it’s a matter of pride. And for our group, it’s a matter of reputation. What does it look like for us, to be handed a relatively simple retrieval job, only to mess it up so spectacularly?
It’s long in the past, of course. But it didn’t look very good at the time.