"Then take that year that you remember and nearly everyone else doesn't as your punishment. You didn't do it on purpose but it happened. You can't change tha-" He stopped, sighing. From what she'd told him, that was exactly what had happened. A year done over. "It doesn't change for you. You're going to have that lesson with you until the day you draw your last breath but you move forward."
The whole matter was outside of his area of expertise. If she wanted to put a hit out on that Master guy, that he could have given her advice for if he hadn't been pretending to be Joe Normal. He hadn't faced the guy and all he had to go on was Martha's story.
"I'm not taking sides," he told her. "I think you should keep an eye out and an ear to the ground in case this guy decides he is going to start something here. At the same time, maybe letting Romana try to work her angle with the guy isn't a bad idea either. He's got multiple sets of eyes on him from different points of view. Can't fool them all."