He returned her seriousness with the sincerity that she knew him well enough to expect.
"There's a lot about this ship that has kept my time here tolerable." Civil rights, for example. "I do not forsee myself tiring of more reasons to be happy."
He didn't mind the idea of putting that to the test, either.
"Elisa, I -"
It might have been the right time to speak his heart plainly, or that moment might still have been a little ways off. He paused to consider this, and to give her time to field his confession if the moment was not right.
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He returned her seriousness with the sincerity that she knew him well enough to expect.
"There's a lot about this ship that has kept my time here tolerable." Civil rights, for example. "I do not forsee myself tiring of more reasons to be happy."
He didn't mind the idea of putting that to the test, either.
"Elisa, I -"
It might have been the right time to speak his heart plainly, or that moment might still have been a little ways off. He paused to consider this, and to give her time to field his confession if the moment was not right.