"See," Cross said, leading the way toward a more well-kept road that could take them to a lift. "That's what I mean. You don't take this shit seriously enough, and lemme tell you—this flippancy shit? This thing where you handwave off every concern? That's what'll threaten your career in the ATC."
Not that words would convince Emery. Nothing but experience and maturity could do that. Hadn't Cross himself and nearly every other Pilot in the history of Aedolis been the same way at one point or other?