"No, of course not," he says without thinking, automatically indignant. "We were both assigned to the Earth, we had our jobs to do." He hesitates, chewing his lip. "And now... well, it's different now, isn't it? We're cut off from the Authorities, there's no sense wasting our energy on all that when it's not even our world." He scowls to himself. He supposes it's too much to hope that makes sense to someone like Rashad.