Topher takes a little while to figure out why Daniel gets suddenly gets sad. If it weren't for the fact the telepathic nature of the dreaming and his affinity with it gives him about 250% more empathy and social intelligence, he probably wouldn't have realised what the issue was at all, just that Daniel suddenly seemed bummed out.
"Sorry," he answers quietly. "I'm not good with the whole... newbie sensitivity thing. Which is kind of funny, cause I actually used to greet newbies pretty often." Not that he was good at it. It was a proximity thing, not an... aptitude skill thing. At least he was good at explaining the science, or at least what they understood of the science.
And he's almost been here a year now, and a lot has happened in that time, he's even had to completely change allegiances. He didn't even arrive in New York, he'd fallen through into San Francisco and then been relocated. If almost feels strange to think back to what it was like at first, to dragged from home, or at the closest thing you could call home, and his own team. Still. Daniel is probably more used to that experience than Topher's ever been. Topher is purely an intellectual explorer.
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"Sorry," he answers quietly. "I'm not good with the whole... newbie sensitivity thing. Which is kind of funny, cause I actually used to greet newbies pretty often." Not that he was good at it. It was a proximity thing, not an... aptitude skill thing. At least he was good at explaining the science, or at least what they understood of the science.
And he's almost been here a year now, and a lot has happened in that time, he's even had to completely change allegiances. He didn't even arrive in New York, he'd fallen through into San Francisco and then been relocated. If almost feels strange to think back to what it was like at first, to dragged from home, or at the closest thing you could call home, and his own team. Still. Daniel is probably more used to that experience than Topher's ever been. Topher is purely an intellectual explorer.