Roy takes a longer drink from his glass and stares into it for a moment, rubbing a hand over the lower half of his face. "Our home lacks some of the advanced technology here, doesn't it? I noticed the architecture of the buildings, the weapons on the battlefield, and the tools in the lab would all be considered old fashioned by a native of this country." Or world. World.

"It's funny. I shouldn't know how computers work or how it would be possible to travel between planets but I do. I'd be even more shocked by this revelation if I hadn't been force fed an education on Terra's sciences."

On that note, she must have worked hard to make sense of the technology here, and to have traveled between planets when hailing from a world that hadn't even reached the moon yet, her presence says even more than he thought at first.

"Thank you for coming for me, Riza," he says. He smiles painfully; a simple thank you seems like a pitiful response to what she had braved, everything he had said so far was pitiful in comparison for that matter. "And I couldn't even remember your name when we met in the library, even now there's still more I'm missing... I'm sorry I couldn't greet you and thank you like you deserved after your journey. For now all I know to say is thank you, and I want to remember you."