[He doesn't miss the hand wringing, and it's not hard to follow that particular train of thought to its conclusion. Speaking of people coming back from the dead...]
[(He would love to see Joba again, if only to apologize. On the other hand, he can't imagine that Belos coming here would be anything but a disaster.)]
[So he takes a different tack and leans forward, bracing his elbows on his knees.]
Look, the only people back home who looked out for me anymore were fellow soldiers watching my back. Up until the day before I got here, nobody watched my back because they liked me as a person.
[Because he got Joba killed; anyone else in the Interground would have known he was a liability to interact with, and he couldn't have a real conversation with anyone else. The Naabs cared, but they didn't know, and he was still a homunculus.]
You didn't have any idea who I was and you still looked out for me. So, thank you.
['Diversion' and 'completely sincere' are not mutually exclusive in this case.]
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[He doesn't miss the hand wringing, and it's not hard to follow that particular train of thought to its conclusion. Speaking of people coming back from the dead...]
[(He would love to see Joba again, if only to apologize. On the other hand, he can't imagine that Belos coming here would be anything but a disaster.)]
[So he takes a different tack and leans forward, bracing his elbows on his knees.]
Look, the only people back home who looked out for me anymore were fellow soldiers watching my back. Up until the day before I got here, nobody watched my back because they liked me as a person.
[Because he got Joba killed; anyone else in the Interground would have known he was a liability to interact with, and he couldn't have a real conversation with anyone else. The Naabs cared, but they didn't know, and he was still a homunculus.]
You didn't have any idea who I was and you still looked out for me. So, thank you.
['Diversion' and 'completely sincere' are not mutually exclusive in this case.]