...This place has put me through worse. Last night wasn't terrible.
[It was only uncomfortably personal. Lupin nodded in similar greeting and offered a smile. The events from the night before felt more distant after a night's sleep, and he was able to admit to a certain sense of catharsis in hindsight. None of his problems were fixed, but he had found something that he couldn't define. A little plant, alone in the desert, had never seemed so significant before.
He still couldn't accept it, but he was starting to see what Spock meant by the 'mutual trust' that they found.]
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[It was only uncomfortably personal. Lupin nodded in similar greeting and offered a smile. The events from the night before felt more distant after a night's sleep, and he was able to admit to a certain sense of catharsis in hindsight. None of his problems were fixed, but he had found something that he couldn't define. A little plant, alone in the desert, had never seemed so significant before.
He still couldn't accept it, but he was starting to see what Spock meant by the 'mutual trust' that they found.]
Last night...it was all a metaphor, wasn't it?