"Given that it was part of you meeting actual aliens, I'm willing to give it a pass. I don't know much about space science and the- The interdimensional things, but I do know that a lot of the rules we think work usually don't the moment we find something new."

Mantis leans foward a bit, holding on to the back of his seat for protection. "Humans are not designed to handle isolation. I don't think any species really can after a certain level of intelligence."

"I haven't seen him feeling a negative one thus far. He seems to be genuinely happy in this place and from the way Hiroki talks, they're living a life of roses and bright, contrasting patterns. Hrioki even asked me to be his best man at the wedding."