".. If anything, it has acknowledged the loss of its initial crew more than the people we lost along the way. It seems there was a group of people on the train before us, but they were all gone by the time we showed up. It has acknowledged them, and asked us to look for them, after giving us some of the logs they left behind."
Which Inigo can get. And he doesn't even think it's that bad of a goal if they might be somewhere out there in danger, sure, though he doesn't think it justifies kidnapping people from their own worlds and troubles to put to work for that instead..
.. but it also makes the other part of it sit so badly with him.
"But when it comes to those of our group who left and whose status is completely unknown, it just doesn't seem to care as much. I asked the train about it, and it just told me that it had no idea what happened to them after they walked off the train."
Maybe he's offering a little bit more information up there than exactly necessary. It's not like he had to let these people know about the crew before them, after all. But maybe he's hoping showing that he's willing to share information means that they'd be willing to share with him too--
"I.. I know that it's not really my place to ask if this is an interview, but.." He has to try. "I just have to know. If I knew the number of the system of someone who left the train that way, would you be able to tell if they were back in their own.. system or not?"
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Which Inigo can get. And he doesn't even think it's that bad of a goal if they might be somewhere out there in danger, sure, though he doesn't think it justifies kidnapping people from their own worlds and troubles to put to work for that instead..
.. but it also makes the other part of it sit so badly with him.
"But when it comes to those of our group who left and whose status is completely unknown, it just doesn't seem to care as much. I asked the train about it, and it just told me that it had no idea what happened to them after they walked off the train."
Maybe he's offering a little bit more information up there than exactly necessary. It's not like he had to let these people know about the crew before them, after all. But maybe he's hoping showing that he's willing to share information means that they'd be willing to share with him too--
"I.. I know that it's not really my place to ask if this is an interview, but.." He has to try. "I just have to know. If I knew the number of the system of someone who left the train that way, would you be able to tell if they were back in their own.. system or not?"