[ he listens, but attentively as always. it takes a bit for him to understand that that would've been -- a different south, the south he remembers more, almost, that first arrived in that world with delta in tow. of course she wouldn't have wanted to surrender an ai, after everything she'd done and been through. and of course york would want delta back, as closely as they were bonded, and -- york might not have trusted her with him.

he offers a nod. not really going to comfort her about the bad decisions she made, because those were still pretty terrible, but. ]

Least you did give him back eventually.

[ which counts for plenty. he can imagine how insistent york probably was about it. a pause, and he just sighs, sinking back a little more against the wall. ]

I just guess -- this kind of thing might be familiar to you, too, huh? People coming back. People going away. Disappearing overnight.