He might never get used to stopping before he speaks, pausing to think about how his words might sound to someone else. Because unless he's been trying to cut especially deep, he's never really bothered.
"Well... I don't want to stay here." Maybe the threat is gone, or maybe they've just bought themselves another few years, but either way this place is too full of bad memories. And it's still dead.
"I suppose we don't have to go back to my world, but wherever we end up, this high-gravity nonsense has got to go." And weather? Whose bright idea was that? It doesn't occur to him that he's using we instead of I. Mostly because it doesn't occur to him that they might not be going somewhere together.
Of course Rosinante won't leave him behind, because he's important. And the same thing applies in the reverse.
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"Well... I don't want to stay here." Maybe the threat is gone, or maybe they've just bought themselves another few years, but either way this place is too full of bad memories. And it's still dead.
"I suppose we don't have to go back to my world, but wherever we end up, this high-gravity nonsense has got to go." And weather? Whose bright idea was that? It doesn't occur to him that he's using we instead of I. Mostly because it doesn't occur to him that they might not be going somewhere together.
Of course Rosinante won't leave him behind, because he's important. And the same thing applies in the reverse.