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[anewlanguage]

Hey, if you don't learn anything else from this, at least you'll come out knowing who likes you and who really wants to melt you in a microwave.

[He's choosing to laugh at all this because otherwise it's horrifying.]

Yeah speaking of: what's been done to you lot so far?

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[anewlanguage]

Why? What would you be like, if you ended up here ten years ago?

[neverfeltbetter]

I'd be screaming my damn head off. Ten years is a lot of difference for me. I've only been exploring space for not quite three.

[Meaning, it's only been three years since he got used to aliens, and super powers and people trying to kill him all the time. Ten years ago he was just some nobody at NASA reaching for the stars.]

I'd have been eaten alive outside of three days.

[And...well, knowing some of the people on this boat, that could almost be literally.]

[anewlanguage]

[Cain laughs--a sort of bark of a sound that's there and gone--and shakes his head]

I respect a man who can own that. You changed a lot in a decade; you ever share the story how that happened?

[neverfeltbetter]

I might over a beer, if you're interested?

[anewlanguage]

Yeah, in the garden? I'll bring the drinks. Quieter than the pub.

[neverfeltbetter]

Sounds nice. I'll meet you there.

[And he's on his way now. Be there in less than ten.]