Dylan and Tyr have had their issues over the past months. Tyr's painted a target on himself, the Andromeda, and her crew with his actions and his plans. But for all the accusations, the sometimes too frank discussions of Dylan's choices, for Tyr's reaction when Dylan locked him out of the storage area that holds the Nietzschean progenitor's stolen corpse, they're friends, a friendship forged in countless battles fought together, in Dylan risking his life to pull Tyr out of danger and in Tyr doing exactly the same for him.
It's their friendship, their shared experiences, the fact that Tyr is on his crew that mean Dylan knows Tyr will understand, without being told, just what that particular piece of news means. The heavy hand on his shoulder, fingers pressing hard, is enough to tell him the unspoken part of the news has been as clearly understood as if he'd expressed it outwardly.
When Tyr meets his eyes, Dylan's caught for a moment, unable to quite keep his expression from showing a little of the sense of being adrift this place gives him.
Tyr's laughter, though, breaks through the unease, and Dylan lets out a deep breath that shakes with a suggestion of laughter of his own.
"They actually seem to be doing okay on their own. This ship serves a federation of planets with 150 member worlds."
Three times as many as the Commonwealth charter needs to be ratified.
"When I first got here, I found Trance waiting for me. She thinks this is a learning experience."
Whatever the reason behind it, Dylan plans to find out exactly what he can learn from the Federation and how it was founded.
Tyr and Harper, though, don't need the lessons Dylan would learn from the Federation. If Trance is right -- and she is, more often than not, when she offers that sort of opinion on events -- that still leaves plenty of questions for the rest of them.
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It's their friendship, their shared experiences, the fact that Tyr is on his crew that mean Dylan knows Tyr will understand, without being told, just what that particular piece of news means. The heavy hand on his shoulder, fingers pressing hard, is enough to tell him the unspoken part of the news has been as clearly understood as if he'd expressed it outwardly.
When Tyr meets his eyes, Dylan's caught for a moment, unable to quite keep his expression from showing a little of the sense of being adrift this place gives him.
Tyr's laughter, though, breaks through the unease, and Dylan lets out a deep breath that shakes with a suggestion of laughter of his own.
"They actually seem to be doing okay on their own. This ship serves a federation of planets with 150 member worlds."
Three times as many as the Commonwealth charter needs to be ratified.
"When I first got here, I found Trance waiting for me. She thinks this is a learning experience."
Whatever the reason behind it, Dylan plans to find out exactly what he can learn from the Federation and how it was founded.
Tyr and Harper, though, don't need the lessons Dylan would learn from the Federation. If Trance is right -- and she is, more often than not, when she offers that sort of opinion on events -- that still leaves plenty of questions for the rest of them.
Like how they're getting home.