Trust me, protecting Ronan from himself is more or less impossible most of the time. I try, and you try, and you see where w end up. But didn't we have a talk about usefulness recently? I seem to remember something about it. Something like 'we don't value our friends for their usefulness'? Without you, he wouldn't be able to do what he does at all, and that's not even why any of us care about you.

[he lets adam play with his pancakes, silent for a long moment.]

And what did he say?