Gene's been trying, he really has. He wants to keep going on like things had been in Keeliai before everything happened and they'd gone home, but he knows that's impossible, and that it'd be irresponsible, too.

Things had changed. He'd accepted that they would when they'd left and never expected to return, but now that they had returned...now, he wasn't sure what to do.

"I don't know," he says, looking at her, utterly unsurprised. "I wouldn't be surprised if the Castians could."