Well, that's the most important thing, then! Living well and all. Maybe it is that I've seen you on television? Sorry, Jack - I'm usually pretty good at remembering faces!
[This was going to trouble him until he got to the bottom of it, he just knew it. But he shelved that concern for when he was alone to think, and focused on the conversation. Making friends was good! Hoping they wanted to stick around, that was good! It didn't hurt if they were friendly and nice to look at either!]
A month? Wow, it was only a week and a half ago for me. Is it rude to ask what another's first Memory was or not? Mine was...dramatic. Sort of traumatic. [His eyes got distant for a moment, before he pulled himself back out again and came back with the smile.]
You can just call me John, unless you like titles. [He grinned a little more, and leaned forward on his knees.] I'm an astrophysicist. Right now, my department is looking at the study of a galaxy cluster at the far edges of the universe - they're still burning blue, but of course, we're seeing how they looked 3.5 billion years ago so we're effectively looking back in time. [He smiles a bit wistfully.] I thought I was going to be bored, but they're letting me do it. Sort of...give us an idea of what conditions were like closer to the Big Bang, you know - Oh, sorry. Sort of went off on a ramble there.
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[This was going to trouble him until he got to the bottom of it, he just knew it. But he shelved that concern for when he was alone to think, and focused on the conversation. Making friends was good! Hoping they wanted to stick around, that was good! It didn't hurt if they were friendly and nice to look at either!]
A month? Wow, it was only a week and a half ago for me. Is it rude to ask what another's first Memory was or not? Mine was...dramatic. Sort of traumatic. [His eyes got distant for a moment, before he pulled himself back out again and came back with the smile.]
You can just call me John, unless you like titles. [He grinned a little more, and leaned forward on his knees.] I'm an astrophysicist. Right now, my department is looking at the study of a galaxy cluster at the far edges of the universe - they're still burning blue, but of course, we're seeing how they looked 3.5 billion years ago so we're effectively looking back in time. [He smiles a bit wistfully.] I thought I was going to be bored, but they're letting me do it. Sort of...give us an idea of what conditions were like closer to the Big Bang, you know - Oh, sorry. Sort of went off on a ramble there.