[ It's fine they have all the time in the world to start the Athrun Sucks club. ]

Yeah, he was. He's not someone who dies easily. Even if he has the tendency to make people think that he did for a good long time without considering contacting them! [ "People" clearly means him, here, if that extra little outburst (even though that has its own edge of upset to it because he didn't enjoy assuming that about him for all that time, either) didn't make that obvious enough.

He huffs. ]

Thankfully the Representative and I were here, so we made sure he knew that too, before he got all weird and mopey about it assuming something worse.

[ He easily notes Shinn's body language, his tone when he speaks. And his own softens just a little bit - because he knows Athrun stayed with the Minerva for quite some time. And if Shinn had to be sent out to hunt him down when he'd tried to escape ... Yzak agonized enough about the concept of "shooting down traitors" himself without actually ending up in a position where he had to go through with it. To actually do it... ]

And he was alright here, too. We've got people with healing abilities on top of a great medical staff.