No, and I'm not saying it would be. I'm not explaining this right.

[He runs his fingers through his beard for a moment, thinking.]

I just mean that whatever it was that made the Anders you first met a good friend is still there. A friendship with my Anders would be different, but he's still the same person with those same qualities that formed your friendship in the first place.

[Adalwolfe lets out a small bemused huff.]

I get how hard it is, though. There's someone here in the fleet that in my world? He's... gone. And it's my fault. Befriending him here instead doesn't change what happened, but it gives insight. I guess.

[A pause.]

Well that's not really the same thing, but it's related anyway. You know what I'm trying to say, I hope.

[He doesn't blame her if she doesn't. He barely knows what he's trying to say anymore.]