" The burden I wasn't prepared for…it isn't the man. It's him. I serve the crew best by tempering him, steering him where he's needed. I've descended into those depths and connected with him, so that I might be able to do so. 

" But I am acutely aware that I'm not the first to have been there…to have been a partner to him in this way. And that the ones that have seen those depths before…they never surfaced again."