"If it was worth it for only a handful of people, then it was worth it." He was willing to say what he had experienced was worth it for the chance he'd had to sit and talk with his Mother. And he was easily able to look at it from the perspective that it had given a lot of people, like Gibbs, the chance to see loved ones again.
"Yeah, they do." He agreed. They did fade, he knew that. "It was easy enough when I was following orders. Perspective changes a bit when you're the one giving the orders." When he'd been made Captain of the King's private guard, the only man he answered to was the King himself. And he didn't give specific orders, not in battle situations.