He responds with a long look, troubled and perplexed, then replies, "All right."
That presents a problem: he would pursue the subject if he didn't care on some level about upsetting her.
On the other hand, if he didn't care about her at all, would he have any interest in her reaction to the hat? It seems unlikely... it's clearly an item of personal importance, nothing that's likely to affect the ship or him, except as it affects her.
If not hers, then whose -- whose could it be that it would have this kind of effect on her? It's just a hat... and more than a hat, but he doesn't understand why yet.
"At least some of the other things are useful. But what are you going to do with those grenades?"
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That presents a problem: he would pursue the subject if he didn't care on some level about upsetting her.
On the other hand, if he didn't care about her at all, would he have any interest in her reaction to the hat? It seems unlikely... it's clearly an item of personal importance, nothing that's likely to affect the ship or him, except as it affects her.
If not hers, then whose -- whose could it be that it would have this kind of effect on her? It's just a hat... and more than a hat, but he doesn't understand why yet.
"At least some of the other things are useful. But what are you going to do with those grenades?"