[Even the man's resignation (or relaxation) looks stoic. Takes some presence to pull that off.]
Is this one of them places?
[Because it's been confining to him. He's a rover, once with the ability to roam the stars. He still misses every part of being able to reach out and visit them and be a part of worlds where time wasn't measured in sunsets or sunrises but the movement of an entire nebula-lit sky. Or worlds covered in skeletons, their artifacts around them the last remnants of their stories, every misplaced relic a tale.]
[Though the people he's met do make a difference. They're the closest he can get to that sense again. Each story, whether it's a tale of a world where someone who dares kill a whole eight people as a soldier is considered unhinged, a foundling boy trained his whole life to be one of the most important Buddhist priests to exist in his world, or an impossibly strong Prince who is only the ruler of a few battle-torn stragglers. Or in another man's dreams to end a cycle of clan-generated violence. He's got to dig for those places in other people's memories.]
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Is this one of them places?
[Because it's been confining to him. He's a rover, once with the ability to roam the stars. He still misses every part of being able to reach out and visit them and be a part of worlds where time wasn't measured in sunsets or sunrises but the movement of an entire nebula-lit sky. Or worlds covered in skeletons, their artifacts around them the last remnants of their stories, every misplaced relic a tale.]
[Though the people he's met do make a difference. They're the closest he can get to that sense again. Each story, whether it's a tale of a world where someone who dares kill a whole eight people as a soldier is considered unhinged, a foundling boy trained his whole life to be one of the most important Buddhist priests to exist in his world, or an impossibly strong Prince who is only the ruler of a few battle-torn stragglers. Or in another man's dreams to end a cycle of clan-generated violence. He's got to dig for those places in other people's memories.]