Pike nodded, letting Jim explain how it all ended. It was an awful set of circumstances but Jim made it out okay, if only barely.

Chris decided to give Jim another assurance that he might not really need to hear verbalized, "You're safe here. Right here, right now, you're safe here." He wasn't going to say what would happen in space, but now Jim was okay.

"And you know you're in a position to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone, ever again. Don't you?"