"What's the trouble, shipmate?"

I grabbed this from a short Wednesday's Universe story about a crew of scavengers just back from a bad mission, although how bad could it have been, they got back...

(I'd be very dead for saying that to my POV character. As in blood on the walls, kicked to pieces, and yet he says this to his youngest shipmate and proceeds to claw his way back from the void in little steps, for her, and for his captain and sister.)

There's a type of space adventure about crew as family which I learned off of 'Citizen of the Galaxy', and I will return to the well until I die...

So, story prompt, what's the trouble, shipmate?