He smiled, ducked his head. Telling someone else you were happy for them simply because they had had good fortune was, oddly, still new to him. In Ryan's Rapture it would have been unheard of. His time in Lamb's Rapture hadn't been long enough to know how people spoke to each other in quieter moments of love or friendship, but somehow he had a difficult time imagining it.

It was sad, a little, that simple kindness was one of the things he had had to learn when he first arrived. Not in himself but in others.

"I just wonder sometimes... what if whatever brought us here sent me home again? I suppose it could happen."