"Yeah. There's no time to get complacent, that's for sure. The moment you're comfortable, something new happens."

Something worse, specifically, but he doesn't feel the need to point that out. The lanterns are particularly bad because what happened was no hallucination. The lanterns are an extension of themselves, their souls, however one wants to see it. Harm that befalls those is dangerous.

"Anyway. You're right, no point dwelling on something we have no control over," he concludes.