Nico's expression grows ever more dubious during Holden's back and forth answer. He's seen them talk and it didn't seem bad so he had figured that there was a decent enough probability that the answer wouldn't be 'no'. That his question might be interpreted as meaning anything other than 'as a person' accomplishes the rare feat of a possibilities that hadn't really crossed his mind. Now it definitely has, a thought which he would've been fine avoiding.
"Uh. Okay. I, uh, was just wondering - her cabin was kind of destroyed. And it'll probably take a bit to fix up and everything, with the Admiral, and I figured she's more used to spaceships and stuff..." He doesn't manage to quite get to the question but he's inched a little closer.
Luckily for Nico, in this instance, for once, Holden is pretty quick on the uptake. "She's welcome to a bunk," he says, immediately. "Hell, I didn't know, or I would have offered already." He knows it's the sort of thing that could be really condescending, but he would have offered regardless.
"I'll go ahead and give her access privileges," he says. "I don't mind her getting in here anyway." Thus making it not a thing conditioned on her accepting the offer, but a new circumstance set in place that --
Oh, huh. That's weird. Someone altered the access privileges. For Horseriver? Holden pauses, with a frown, staring down at the network device. It must have been Jedao, Jedao's the only one who steals Holden's network access. But it's not about physical access, so why...?
He thinks that Missy is living in the cell where she'd been alone for decades is a problem, whatever the state of it, but luckily destruction offers a reason that doesn't require offering that sort of information and which can be used as a logical reason for going someplace where there's always a degree of company, even if you stay out of the way.
"Thanks." He appreciates not having to have asked fully and he's not sure how much appreciation she would show, "Sometimes it's easier when it's not, uh, offered like that." Pride is a tricky thing and not something he can call on his own experience to understand.
"And, uh, thanks for letting me stay here." It's hard to say, there's a reason he tries his best to avoid any notice, acknowledgement is a step away from being told to leave. But he's trying.
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"Uh. Okay. I, uh, was just wondering - her cabin was kind of destroyed. And it'll probably take a bit to fix up and everything, with the Admiral, and I figured she's more used to spaceships and stuff..." He doesn't manage to quite get to the question but he's inched a little closer.
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Luckily for Nico, in this instance, for once, Holden is pretty quick on the uptake. "She's welcome to a bunk," he says, immediately. "Hell, I didn't know, or I would have offered already." He knows it's the sort of thing that could be really condescending, but he would have offered regardless.
"I'll go ahead and give her access privileges," he says. "I don't mind her getting in here anyway." Thus making it not a thing conditioned on her accepting the offer, but a new circumstance set in place that --
Oh, huh. That's weird. Someone altered the access privileges. For Horseriver? Holden pauses, with a frown, staring down at the network device. It must have been Jedao, Jedao's the only one who steals Holden's network access. But it's not about physical access, so why...?
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"Thanks." He appreciates not having to have asked fully and he's not sure how much appreciation she would show, "Sometimes it's easier when it's not, uh, offered like that." Pride is a tricky thing and not something he can call on his own experience to understand.
"And, uh, thanks for letting me stay here." It's hard to say, there's a reason he tries his best to avoid any notice, acknowledgement is a step away from being told to leave. But he's trying.