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"Really? Even from you? Really shoddy work for a fellow scientist, amigo, don't you think? To misspell the name of a fellow researcher is considered a very grave offense..."

Non-verbal actions: caring.

There's a lot of silence between them. Claire feels like Jan isn't being upfront about something, not that she can really guess. They flew through... something bad. The transport ship crashed and... that's where her memory falls into a black hole.

It must mean something.

But they've been at a standstill, quiet for what feels like a whole hour.

"I can't help you if you don't talk to me." He finishes the sentence, letting out a light sigh before he approaches just a tiny bit, a short step. When in doubt, return to basics. "Do you know who you are? Where you are?"

Ariadne knows she did something bad. That's how her young mind rationalises it — she doesn't stop and think how her mother and father will be desperately searching for her through that life-altering feeling of worrying so much it causes a sickness to take hold, or how her absence will make her brother withdraw into himself because he's scared and alone.

All she thinks is that she did something she wasn't supposed to do and now she's in big trouble.

Blue eyes blink up at the strange man. He hasn't been unkind to her, far from it, but they both seem to understand that something very big has happened here. To Ariadne, she thinks if he speaks up, she will be in trouble sooner. To Jan, she simply should not exist. She's scared of consequences and he's grappling with perhaps his own sanity.

Lips pursed, Ariadne gives a shake of her head, her silvery hair catching in the light. Another oddity. She's human-shaped but she's not quite passing. There's something very strange about her. The very air around her seems to shift when he takes a measured steps. Like there are small vibrations.