The spirit nods, Booker's words pulling a faint depreciating smile from him. Boy do I know how that feels, he thinks. Trying to fix things only causes a bigger mess...

But he glances back up at the older one after a moment and hopes that his sincerity carries through in his tone. "There's two things you missed about what you just said, Booker: that you know they were terrible things, and that you tried to fix them. I don't know how that stacks up against 'redemption', if at all. But it tells me that you're not the same person you were when you made those mistakes, that you've tried to get better. And for me, at least... that's worth something. Worth a chance to let you keep trying."