[a little smile back in the face of that gaze- catching it a moment and dropping it.]
Thank you. I will remember.
[He knows the feelings Chuuya is describing all too well - and he could have asked whether he was really so obvious. Instead-]
But doesn't it hang over us all? The places we've lost, the people...
[he's not unique, in any sense. They have all lost - all have someone in stasis up on the station. And he doesn't imagine himself even a moment to be alone, in the things he has experienced. The upsets may be different for every person, but no pain is more or less valid than another.]
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Thank you. I will remember.
[He knows the feelings Chuuya is describing all too well - and he could have asked whether he was really so obvious. Instead-]
But doesn't it hang over us all? The places we've lost, the people...
[he's not unique, in any sense. They have all lost - all have someone in stasis up on the station. And he doesn't imagine himself even a moment to be alone, in the things he has experienced. The upsets may be different for every person, but no pain is more or less valid than another.]