"I was not involved in the decision-making process, but I believe there were concerns about debris returning to earth."

"In the movie they were under a lot of time pressure and just had to do something fast; I don't know if that's accurate."

"Getting things to the sun isn't even fast, it's, you know, about one astronomical unit away."

"I think picking the coordinates was the part that had to happen fast, not the actual getting it there.  But like again, I know this from a movie that was accurate enough for them to show it to us at the end of the year in physics class, which is not zero bar but also not a high one."

"Fair enough, I guess."

"It might have just been a bad idea in the first place; sometimes people have those.  And act on them.  Like having a superweapon to begin with."

"Was this a nuke or some other kind of superweapon?"

"I think some other kind."

"Do places have nuclear arsenals here?"

"Yeah.  You guys?"

"Yeah, it probably wouldn't have occurred to me to ask if we didn't really."

"Sense.  - Seat switch?"

"Of course!"

Shuffle shuffle shuffle swap.  "Why's that so happy-making?  - Were you getting tired of being on that side; you know you're like, also very welcome to make physical comfort requests, right..."

"It's a social anxiety type symptom I think! I confused the shit out my father when I called him about it because he knew I always wanted to be an esper so I sounded like I had to be being super sarcastic when I told him it sucks!"

"Oh nooooo."

"Perhaps one day we will laugh about it."

"I hope so."

Xavier, now adjacent to him, slings an arm around his shoulders and gives him a single squeeze.

Pathetically grateful puppydog face time, apparently?

"How concerned are you about the risk of not being able to communicate a preference of yours, which you'll regret once more clearheaded?

"Uh, not very? Not being able to enforce a boundary even if I mention it I am worried about some, I guess, this has occurred to me as a possible failure mode of crashing in some random guy's place, but it would get mentioned if only because I'd eventually run out of other things to say."

"That's relieving."

"Quite. I apologize for the vague aspersions."

"It's good that you're able to watch out for yourself at least that much."  He ruffles Haru's hair and returns to eating.