[It's also far from the first time they've been traveling on opposite sides of a country; he'll miss her, but he'll get used to it quickly.]

A lot of the good stories weren't too great when they were happening...

There was once when it was me and those two humans, I've mentioned them to you before. We'd accidentally stowed away on the ferry to Cianwood, but when we came back we paid the fare and got to ride on the actual boat. Much better than hiding in a lifeboat.

[He grins, a little smugly.] Tulio was convinced one of the crew was going to notice that we were the ones who'd jumped out of the lifeboats before, but they never did.