Mm.

[Yeah. It was a curious word, wasn't it? Keith mulled that over, chewing his lip slightly.]

Yeah. You'd think, right? It almost never seems like enough. And you know what people mean when they say it to you. And it's like... yeah. You're sorry about the circumstances, because they suck. I get it. But then it's like... when someone says it to you, what do you even say back? 'Thanks'? 'Me, too'? I honestly kinda hate it.

I just... don't know what else to say other than that. It feels like it's expected, almost.

[Spoken like someone who'd been on the receiving end of exactly those kind of 'sorry' comments before.]