on possibly being re-apped

[thirtyfiveminutes]

Of course I'm glad. My work on the ship was not complete. [ A beat. ] However, I do not quite believe this nonsense about me making friends.

[ Yet, he's smiling. ] The sooner, the better.

Comments

[je_suis_avec_toi]

Are you blaming the Admiral then?

[thirtyfiveminutes]

I can only blame myself if the Admiral thought to send me home. Yet none of us know his true thoughts, do we?

[je_suis_avec_toi]

That makes two of you I'm not sure to trust.

[thirtyfiveminutes]

A wise policy.

[je_suis_avec_toi]

It's very hard to trust people who know more about you than you know about them.

[thirtyfiveminutes]

That, as you know, was out of my hands.

[je_suis_avec_toi]

You could have talked to me. I have ears.