Saltwater Tears

"Kim and Elly said I was angel."

It feels wrong, unnecessary, to repeat information, but Kahran is someone they haven't met. Emeralda resolves to be just as honest with him as with Fei. Aren't they supposed to be same?

"An angel...I see."

He knows about Kim. He knows all the history of the Contact. If he's honest, he doesn't very much like hearing about how the man, in this lifetime little more than a boy, who had obviated his entire reason for existence had also once praised the creation of his own nanomachine colony.

And yet... "They were right."