This is going to be a little tricky to take a whack at with sign language, but it's good practice, too. "She was injured, I believe it was during the engineering incident a while ago," he says, and has to figure out an acceptable shorthand for incident, making a note that they may have to invent something that indicates a disaster specific to the Tranquility. "She ended up losing her leg, and though she's gotten a prosthetic," another word he hasn't used a sign for yet, "she's having a bit of a hard time still."

Pause in storytelling for a bit to go through sign language notes. It really has been a challenge to figure some of this out, owing to his own lack of totally fluent ability. But they were always going to have to make up a lot of it on their own, owing to where they are.

After a while, "You don't let your disability rule your life, and I think she needs to see that from someone." Instead of being told off, or 'cheered up', or whatever else.