Having arrived there, adjusted, spent a day or so there, De could almost say that he felt absolutely comfortable. Which was something, at least. Leaving the ship had provoked an anxiety within him, but that was more to do with the enforced change, and worries about how one got off a starship and onto a planet - he knew how it was done of course; ( Read more... )

De hadn't really ventured to many places on board ship, certainly not by himself, at any rate. His time, of which there was a lot, tended to be spilt between spending time alone in his quarters, spending time with Bill and Len in the common area of their rooms, and, more recently, down in Botany, tending to and preparing his now beloved rose plot ( Read more... )