Hmm? Yes, of course you'd want to see it. There are new names on it now, as well.

[And after a beat] If yours looks- strange, it is probably because of the party. That Newton organized.

[It's a too-specific denial, but it has been a long winter. Even without the change of seasons outside of the windows that they do not have, he still feels it in his bones. The call of the cold. Of long nights and watery daylight. Of snow and spiced ale.]

I live alone. [Kovach leaving had been a blessing, really. No one to occupy his space, no one to pretend for. The room was still almost as bare as it had been when he moved in, and that was how he liked it.] If you need a place to sleep, you are welcome with me.

[Aleksander's lips twist in a mockery of a smile, Kovach had a big mouth. A big, hypocritical one and it grated like sandpaper against his soul some days, when Daisy shouted at him on the network or Kovach himself made snide, juvenile remarks.] Unless you are worried I might kill you in your sleep.

[The tether that Degar dulled for him. For them. The relentless pull that seemed so distant now, it reason for his insanity and his endless want. The truth of his fate and how utterly helpless he was to stop it.

All he would ever get was this short time on the station.

And here, he would be Aleksander. His true name.

He shakes his head, hands out and palms down-] I'm sorry. That was-- I wouldn't, you know.