You don't learn things if you don't ask questions. [ A quick, simple reply, because he's, at his core, a straightforward and honest sort of person.

He lets out an exhale as they wander down the hallway where the Outsiders are staying. He listens, even if his brain still feels foggy and heavy from this fever. ]

I'm just asking. Because I wonder what the ships I've been on and commanded myself would be like, based on those things. [ The ones that still exist and the ones that have been destroyed. What sort of things would his own experiences and thoughts put into them? When he was such a different person on the Vesalius compared to the Voltaire and now the Eternal. ]