[Somehow he's still not quite expecting Mikleo to want his company, so the affirmation is welcome-- if a bit embarrassing. It doesn't take much to get him to blush, though.]

Hiro and I were the same.

[He misses his engineering nerd buddy, but life is what it is.]

I have a few books of alien folklore, and at least one that includes a detailed history of the rise and fall of some distant empire. [A pause.] Unless someone took it.