He isn't really sure what nearly anyone on the ship is to him. So many people come and go so often in so many different ways, some more final than others, that it seems like a bad idea to get too attached to anyone.
He supposes that he and Nathan had been friends, of a kind, or at least men who had a mutual agenda and got along well. But he also knows that he would have worked against Nathan if a situation that required it had arisen. The same is true of Bail, Dick, even Darcy -- the difference for all of them, and for Nathan, what sets them apart from others, is that L would find such a state of affairs regrettable.
"I've only been out of the halls a little bit longer than you have." Meaning that he's only a day ahead of her in terms of recovery, and probably shouldn't be out of bed.
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He isn't really sure what nearly anyone on the ship is to him. So many people come and go so often in so many different ways, some more final than others, that it seems like a bad idea to get too attached to anyone.
He supposes that he and Nathan had been friends, of a kind, or at least men who had a mutual agenda and got along well. But he also knows that he would have worked against Nathan if a situation that required it had arisen. The same is true of Bail, Dick, even Darcy -- the difference for all of them, and for Nathan, what sets them apart from others, is that L would find such a state of affairs regrettable.
"I've only been out of the halls a little bit longer than you have." Meaning that he's only a day ahead of her in terms of recovery, and probably shouldn't be out of bed.