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[willtrytobegood]

I don't - I don't understand. I am not that person - I was not that person.

Is this what all ports are like? I have had more than enough trouble understanding who I am meant to be, I have no interest in regularly foiling those efforts.

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[young_idealist]

Ports are difficult. Did you fall overboard?

[willtrytobegood]

Is that what...? Yes. Yes I did.

[young_idealist]

I am so very sorry. I didn't realize. I went looking for people, but only found a very few.

[willtrytobegood]

It's hardly your fault, Armand.

I was...in hiding, in any case.

[young_idealist]

I found Mlle. Serra and Sergeant Howie, and they found others. You have my deep sympathy. I have not yet experienced that unpleasantness myself, but I've seen its effects in others.

[willtrytobegood]

I was with Inara for most of the...was it only a week?

[young_idealist]

More or less. I'm sure she looked after you. She's a nurturing soul, no matter what that world did to her.

[willtrytobegood]

She - I don't--

I'm sorry, messire. Words are failing me. I have lived through siege and battle, I have sen my friends possessed, but that was exceedingly difficult to manage.

[young_idealist]

Then perhaps some rest will do you good. Tis all I know to recommend. And I'll leave you to it.

[willtrytobegood]

[He hates rest. But he will totally seek refuge in the library after this.]

Thank you, Armand.