"...and you don't think you're good enough." Just gonna finish that line of thought for Wash since he trails off. Self worth issues were common ground made fertile and fucked up by the Project. How a lot of them got yanked around by the system; at least from his read of the situation. Or maybe he's projecting, fuck if he knows. Still it's-

Not a terrible breakdown. It's all pretty reasonable.

"He'll notice if you avoid him or if you're acting different." The man's smart, crazy smart, part and parcel with being. Well. Him.