He recognized the thought as similar to those of men who'd lost their dragons, though he felt sure that the Skrull had never known what it was like to have one. In some way, that almost made him pity the being. To lose one's sense of purpose, even if that purpose had been as cruel and immoral as N'cho's...

N'ton shook his head.

"The point of failure is to pick yourself up afterward, man. When you are unable to go in one direction, you find another."