[A flicker of something passes over Adam's face at "five months"– surprise? Concern? Not that he really expects this to be a day trip, but… What happens back on their own worlds while they're gone? Do they come back at their end of their journey, a Rip Van Winkle, finding that the world has passed them by while they slept?
Adam shakes himself mentally – no point thinking about what he can't affect. What matters is what he knows he can change.]
Everyone I talk to gives the previous captains a hard time. But no one seems to be happy with the new regime, either.
[He tilts his head.] At a certain point, you gotta wonder who it is that's the problem here.
[It's deliberately inflammatory of him to say, and not even something he necessarily believes – but he's hoping to get some honest, choice words from it. Something besides yet another voice caught in this echo chamber.]
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Adam shakes himself mentally – no point thinking about what he can't affect. What matters is what he knows he can change.]
Everyone I talk to gives the previous captains a hard time. But no one seems to be happy with the new regime, either.
[He tilts his head.] At a certain point, you gotta wonder who it is that's the problem here.
[It's deliberately inflammatory of him to say, and not even something he necessarily believes – but he's hoping to get some honest, choice words from it. Something besides yet another voice caught in this echo chamber.]