"Failure is consequence enough, isn't it? What you'd hoped to achieve or discover is no closer for it. Save an...eliminated variable. Lost time as well. If there is something I loathe, it is lost time on a project..." He trails off briefly, as if caught on his own thoughts and taken for a brief mental jaunt along with them, forgetting his conversation.

Micolash comes back to himself in a few seconds, however, breaking into a smile and a tired laugh. "When one studies the infinite so closely and attentively, one begins to see clearer how very. Very finite a single human is. So much to discover, to ascertain, to achieve. And only less than a solitary blink of an eye to do it in, cosmically speaking."