[Even now that Vash has gotten a taste of the real thing, the sunlight room is still his favorite place on the station. It feels like home in a way nowhere else does, this little room of grass and sunlight and water within walls of reinforced steel and chrome -- a reminder of humanity always striving to reclaim beauty for itself. It brings to mind Rem's geraniums, Luida's dome of flowers, her dream to spread them across the surface of No Man's Land someday, the indomitable spirit of a species that's survived on a planet not meant to sustain them for a hundred and fifty years.
All of this, accomplished without Plants. It humbles and awes him regularly; what if this is how things could be in their world, someday? The SEEDS fleet could land somewhere better, safer -- a lush, vibrant planet like Nuhiri with no shortage of fresh water and plenty to eat.
(He and Rem and Nai could be a family again)
It's why he's here, ultimately. A better life for every person on that planet and every person who never lived to see it in the first place. Including the one in front of him, apparently. Vash isn't surprised to see Wolfwood, when he opens the door to the room that he uses frankly more than his own quarters -- in the short time he's known him, Vash suspects that this man might have more regrets than any he's ever known in all his decades of wandering.
He comes to settle beside the younger man, and chuckles at his grumbling once he comes close enough to hear.]
It's a good thing, isn't it? That they don't know.
[Vash could not wish a true understanding of their circumstances on anyone, not really. Even so, it's ... nice, to have someone who can admire the miracle of technology they've been granted here and understand what it means for something like it to exist at all, "real" or not, without having to say anything at all. Like the release of a pressure valve he hadn't realized had been sealed so tight until this very moment.]
part 2
All of this, accomplished without Plants. It humbles and awes him regularly; what if this is how things could be in their world, someday? The SEEDS fleet could land somewhere better, safer -- a lush, vibrant planet like Nuhiri with no shortage of fresh water and plenty to eat.
(He and Rem and Nai could be a family again)It's why he's here, ultimately. A better life for every person on that planet and every person who never lived to see it in the first place. Including the one in front of him, apparently. Vash isn't surprised to see Wolfwood, when he opens the door to the room that he uses frankly more than his own quarters -- in the short time he's known him, Vash suspects that this man might have more regrets than any he's ever known in all his decades of wandering.
He comes to settle beside the younger man, and chuckles at his grumbling once he comes close enough to hear.]
It's a good thing, isn't it? That they don't know.
[Vash could not wish a true understanding of their circumstances on anyone, not really. Even so, it's ... nice, to have someone who can admire the miracle of technology they've been granted here and understand what it means for something like it to exist at all, "real" or not, without having to say anything at all. Like the release of a pressure valve he hadn't realized had been sealed so tight until this very moment.]