"those kids you saved, those kids you took care of and love and are the small bright flame of the future? you didn't save them. they were never kids, from the moment the bomb fell on that transit station"

plus it's tied into the shitty way the whole "Kolea's kids are alive but he can't bring himself to tell them" plot was resolved

that was dragged out way too long and resolved in a side story with, as far as I can remember, Dalin being aware that Kolea's his dad but it not really being talked about, and Yoncy just unaware