Idrem sensed Brenlor swinging toward the rash reactivity that the Srin often mistook for decisive action when confronted with a crisis. - Charles E. Gannon

You are impetuous. But then again, you are human.

And over the many months that followed, as Caine crept through both terrestrial and alien undergrowth on missions to reclaim some of the autonomy humanity had lost, he learned and relearned the prime lesson in common to all the shocks:
That all assumptions, like all plans, or never more than a second away from a catastrophic collision with reality.

No: the answer you like the most is the one you should trust the least. Go over the evidence one more time: be sure you haven’t missed something.