Bariyan listened in silence, sensing a need to let loose and not wanting to interrupt. But when Koltira was done Bariyan looked away, arms folded together over the table, fingers hooked over his elbows.

"That would be a lot of trust to put into someone I'd only known a month," he said, quietly. Koltira's behavior directly following the VR disaster certainly hadn't inspired any confidence in him. That was why Bariyan had gone out there. That, and what Bariyan had seen in the VR himself. And....

He bit the last thought back.

"Have you adjusted, then?"