[After over a year in space, and a few others as an arm trying to take over an old cowboy/torture fetishist, it's not very hard to imagine it as wishful thinking. But it soon becomes pretty obvious, even before Mantis comes into view and removes even the tiniest bit of doubt.
Hell, this kind of used to be the kind of thing that happened every day. It's like a blast from the past of normalcy... for people who aren't quite so normal.]
I suppose neither do I, at this point.
[Soon enough, his posture becomes a bit more casual, his smile a bit more genuine. A bit.]
I know you're going to just hate the sentimentality of this, but bloody hell I missed you. [Not like he needed to say it, of course, since his mind's already been thinking it.]
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Hell, this kind of used to be the kind of thing that happened every day. It's like a blast from the past of normalcy... for people who aren't quite so normal.]
I suppose neither do I, at this point.
[Soon enough, his posture becomes a bit more casual, his smile a bit more genuine. A bit.]
I know you're going to just hate the sentimentality of this, but bloody hell I missed you. [Not like he needed to say it, of course, since his mind's already been thinking it.]