They both blink to find he's gone and found out the full story, though it's Ghost who flutters and drifts closer in concern.
"That must have been very hard to learn," he says quietly, optic peeking at Steve's face. They didn't know this.
Bryn's watching him closely too, unfamiliar with Steve himself but feeling a sympathetic wrench nonetheless. "It seems unfair that you ended up here." Getting yanked even farther away after he tried so hard to play his part...
And listening to Steve talk about it is... it's very far from reading a history textbook. Especially since, as understanding as they try to be, it's hard for anyone coming from a post-Traveler, post-war society to look back on their ancestors and not judge them even a little bit. Those unconscious expectations become a little bit jarring when her brain tries to match them up with Steve.
"...Would you tell me what New York is like? It's fine if you'd rather talk about something else. Or if you don't want to talk about wartime. I've only even been to Earth twice, and I was just a kid the first time. It's all different to me." That's a fumble, but she loves her home and she loves sharing it with other people; she works on the basis that the same thing might cheer him up too.
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That must have been very hard to learn," he says quietly, optic peeking at Steve's face. They didn't know this.Bryn's watching him closely too, unfamiliar with Steve himself but feeling a sympathetic wrench nonetheless. "It seems unfair that you ended up here." Getting yanked even farther away after he tried so hard to play his part...
And listening to Steve talk about it is... it's very far from reading a history textbook. Especially since, as understanding as they try to be, it's hard for anyone coming from a post-Traveler, post-war society to look back on their ancestors and not judge them even a little bit. Those unconscious expectations become a little bit jarring when her brain tries to match them up with Steve.
"...Would you tell me what New York is like? It's fine if you'd rather talk about something else. Or if you don't want to talk about wartime. I've only even been to Earth twice, and I was just a kid the first time. It's all different to me." That's a fumble, but she loves her home and she loves sharing it with other people; she works on the basis that the same thing might cheer him up too.