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"So you moved out. Sensible of you all." Serafima handed back the cups with an approving nod. "May I ask where you're staying now? In case Galatea comes back sooner than expected, of course." The Captain really did have an amazingly unnerving way of injecting polite and dutiful concern into staid words. Though it also seemed as if she actually did care a bit but was completely out of practice in showing it.

Hadrian was in the middle of super-heating his own small drink, when he looked up to glance between Aleric and Silva curiously at their comments. Aleric and Soho would die even just a little distance away like that? He'd been a good distance away from his own bond for what he supposed was a fairly long amount of time, by the standards Silva was talking about. He wondered if he should have been concerned - though neither she nor Hadrian himself had been worried at the time.
Silva didn't sound concerned that he thought his bond liked Aleric better...so Hadrian didn't say anything about it.

"Is that back porch far enough away that the nightmares aren't as ...uhm....vivid, at least?"

Silva stayed silent for a moment, thinking about it. "There's the matter of distance, and there's the matter of what's in your head to work with. Some people have nightmares easier than others, regardless of how strong or weak the brat is."

He wasn't speaking philosphically, Aleric realized, just speaking from experience. "Yes," Aleric said rather than explain, "it has lessened it somewhat."

"Very good, then." Serafima sipped her tea slowly. "I can see, though, why Galatea thinks such a lot of you. Mental stress is far worse than any sort of physical trauma and the fact that you bear it and overcome it speaks well of your determination." She paused then and a strange look came over her face that, unless you knew the Captain, you would have called sheepish. "The three of you are all very strong-willed," she added swiftly, hiding the moment. "I'm pleased that Galatea can find friendship and inspiration from you."

Hadrian smiled at Serafima's compliment, the Captain was being less detached then usual - he suspected she missed Galatea more then she was admitting too.

He turn, a little sharply, toward Aleric, though, as the Feien expressed his concern, "What do you mean, acting strange?" He asked, carefully. For Hadrian, the expression on his face was almost startling - he was actually frowning, just slightly. "Silva is right...." He admitted reluctantly, "Dee has always been a little bit...odd."

After all the first time he'd met her, she'd become completely convinced he'd been sent by some sort of higher power to teach the feien about the world outside of Gaia.

"Pretty much," Silva said equally as bluntly. "But she's not a fighter, and she's a bit overprotective if anything. Crazy as hell if you get her talking religion."

"Everyone is entitled to their beliefs," Aleric said in a pacifying manner. "Our own bond has a religion, you realize."

"But she's not bat s**t crazy," Silva said.

Aleric glanced up, hesitating slightly.

"She was messed up over the fleet," Silva said in place of his brother. "She was positive they would attack one of the kids. Now the fleet's gone and nothing's happened, so..." he shrugged.

"But there was something else," Aleric said softly. "She was actually scared, from what Silva told me."