[If only. But Robert manages to understand that he's said something profound, enough that he nods a little.
Straightening back up into his normal posture, now.]
... Still... you have done this for... for most of your life. I have only done it for half a year...
And my experiences are... very different. My home universe alone... [He looks back down at his hands. They're still small, and soft - delicate, yes - but they no longer have the exact same never-experienced-work fragility. His whole body is no longer as frail and breakable as it once was...
These things would brand him as a traitor to Terran society, were he ever placed in a position where they would show. And this is to say nothing of what he knows, now.]
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Straightening back up into his normal posture, now.]
... Still... you have done this for... for most of your life. I have only done it for half a year...
And my experiences are... very different. My home universe alone... [He looks back down at his hands. They're still small, and soft - delicate, yes - but they no longer have the exact same never-experienced-work fragility. His whole body is no longer as frail and breakable as it once was...
These things would brand him as a traitor to Terran society, were he ever placed in a position where they would show. And this is to say nothing of what he knows, now.]