Nah-- ya didn't. You just helped me find the right words.
[Even for a person who made tense negotiations a regular practice, finding the proper words for this context was tricky. He didn't know which ones to use at first, but it wasn't impossible. Nor was it too far.
Cliff shifted a little closer to Souji, feeling more comfortable with the air between them cleared of tension.]
I'm just gonna ask that you be a little bit patient in the future. Learning all of this was a shock, and all of us who made it here have come from different points in time. Nel...she hadn't even made it off of her homeworld by the time she got here. She had very little idea about any of this before we told her. And, that might be the case if anyone else comes. There's no way to tell.
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[Even for a person who made tense negotiations a regular practice, finding the proper words for this context was tricky. He didn't know which ones to use at first, but it wasn't impossible. Nor was it too far.
Cliff shifted a little closer to Souji, feeling more comfortable with the air between them cleared of tension.]
I'm just gonna ask that you be a little bit patient in the future. Learning all of this was a shock, and all of us who made it here have come from different points in time. Nel...she hadn't even made it off of her homeworld by the time she got here. She had very little idea about any of this before we told her. And, that might be the case if anyone else comes. There's no way to tell.