Gene blinks. He'd quite forgotten - or at least, gotten used to not dealing with - Pepper's rapid-fire interrogation style. "Um."
Eloquent.
Give him a second to parse all that before he attempts to respond.
"Okay, this is going to sound all kinds of wacky, but...you're not exactly on Earth anymore, and I can't send us back. And Tony isn't on the ship. Or - maybe he still is, back home, for you, I guess." He remembers how Tony had been from a point further in Gene's future than he'd yet experienced when he arrived. "But he's here, too. In Keeliai."
He braces up for a million more questions, and wishes someone else had been the one to find Pepper, if only to spare him the headache he knows will soon develop.
no subject
Eloquent.
Give him a second to parse all that before he attempts to respond.
"Okay, this is going to sound all kinds of wacky, but...you're not exactly on Earth anymore, and I can't send us back. And Tony isn't on the ship. Or - maybe he still is, back home, for you, I guess." He remembers how Tony had been from a point further in Gene's future than he'd yet experienced when he arrived. "But he's here, too. In Keeliai."
He braces up for a million more questions, and wishes someone else had been the one to find Pepper, if only to spare him the headache he knows will soon develop.