[ That the question makes his new companion all but light up isn't lost on Claude while he observes carefully behind that genial mask he so often wears, but the more he listens, the less it stays a mask and becomes something more of actual interest. A home that is the stars - he muses on that for a minute before watching as there's gestures to the sky, and then Claude turns his own attention to what's above them.
There's the sense, like when he learned why it is Rhea had always seemed older than her tenure as archbishop implied, or why Teach possessed an occasionally unnerving version of the same feeling applied in different ways. It clicks into place with hundreds of years and watching it go, and then his gaze swivels back. ]
Sorry, you're saying you watched a star disappear centuries ago? And that you lived among them?
[ There's no skepticism or disbelief there, just genuine curiosity. He thinks of Garrus and Shepard and what they'd described of being in space, and discussions of stars he's had with others from Earth. What little context Claude has for that helps as he fits some puzzle pieces together. It's a good thing there's that promise of not forgetting to continue it because he's certainly going to come back to it, but that can wait as he nods in regards to Abraxas' night skies. ]
I have here and there, since I was hoping to find any constellations from home that might also be here. No luck on that yet in all my studies, but what I've come across in libraries sounds a bit like what you've described. My familiarity is based more in the legends, but also. [ He's fishing around in his pockets to retrieve the compact mirror he usually keeps with him, casually flipping it open with the night sky above them now much closer thanks to the projection of it in accurate detail from the mirror overhead for both of them. ] Navigation, since it's a viable way to get around the desert if you plan to visit it, though you might also know of navigating within the stars from the sound of it.
so sorry for the delay, last week was all over the place for me!
There's the sense, like when he learned why it is Rhea had always seemed older than her tenure as archbishop implied, or why Teach possessed an occasionally unnerving version of the same feeling applied in different ways. It clicks into place with hundreds of years and watching it go, and then his gaze swivels back. ]
Sorry, you're saying you watched a star disappear centuries ago? And that you lived among them?
[ There's no skepticism or disbelief there, just genuine curiosity. He thinks of Garrus and Shepard and what they'd described of being in space, and discussions of stars he's had with others from Earth. What little context Claude has for that helps as he fits some puzzle pieces together. It's a good thing there's that promise of not forgetting to continue it because he's certainly going to come back to it, but that can wait as he nods in regards to Abraxas' night skies. ]
I have here and there, since I was hoping to find any constellations from home that might also be here. No luck on that yet in all my studies, but what I've come across in libraries sounds a bit like what you've described. My familiarity is based more in the legends, but also. [ He's fishing around in his pockets to retrieve the compact mirror he usually keeps with him, casually flipping it open with the night sky above them now much closer thanks to the projection of it in accurate detail from the mirror overhead for both of them. ] Navigation, since it's a viable way to get around the desert if you plan to visit it, though you might also know of navigating within the stars from the sound of it.