As if noticing your focus Captain Howls speaks once more. "We won't be going home, cadet." You reckon he's joking, he must be. He had been a well renowned space captain on Earth for years, so of course he'd play jokes like this, right?

"I didn't want to desert earth alone. So I waited, and waited, and waited. And then you came along. A bad stroke of luck is all." He still didn't look at you, somehow this felt even worse than the situation itself.