[He watches it, to have something benign to focus on.]

As best I can. We've lost so many, and it feels that we're barely making progress towards... anything.

[He's not sure what they're supposed to be doing other than surviving and trying to find a way out of here. But it seems there might be some greater purpose; if only he could figure out what.]

I'm unfortunately accustomed to the worst happening consistently. I had hoped the afterlife might be different.