You protected the Bolters because you know the little guy matters.

Because every single one of us matters and the many can always overcome the few. You are a man of the people and you'll be lying dead on the ground before anyone lays a finger on them.

Rydra doesn't need saving. She runs an entire salvage city on nothing but will and the loyalty of people who have nowhere else to go. She has protected others her entire life because everyone she ever loved walked away, and she decided the answer to that was to become the person who stays.

She's going to see something in you that you can't see in yourself. When the odds are impossible and the people counting on you feel like a weight you can't carry — she's the hand that pulls you back up. Not because she has to. Because she knows what you're capable of even when you've forgotten.

Some people break under the weight of this universe. Rydra built a city under it.

She's waiting. She just doesn't know it yet.