Och, well. It willna be the first time for me. I'll help ye, John. 'Tis no small thing, to be in a new land wi'out understanding it.

[ Just ask Claire. ]

But if I can learn how to survive in France, in a new world in North Carolina, I have faith ye can adjust to life here. Both of us can.

[ Even if 'here' is some other planet. They can make it, he has to believe that. ]

Claire told me she visited me in stasis, all of our family, but I havena looked, myself. Too much, for the first days, I reckon.

[ He isn't ready to see his sister, nieces and nephews, Ian, all asleep. Isn't ready to see the dead she claims are there as well. ]