And, yeah, Peter’s pretty sure that anyone who pilots a ship has a special brand of agoraphobia, where staring too long in the dark expanse of space makes a guy realize just how fucked he is if everything separating him from the void fails. When he first started piloting, Peter tried his best not to think about it.
These days, he has about a million other reasons he avoids that particular thought, very few of them he’s willing to speak aloud. ]
It’s like this. Space is dangerous, yeah, and it’s not really for the faint of heart, but it’s like— if you get over that hurdle, if you ignore the risks, you really can go anywhere.
[ A beat. ]
Assuming you have the means and the technology to get you where you wanna go, anyway.
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And, yeah, Peter’s pretty sure that anyone who pilots a ship has a special brand of agoraphobia, where staring too long in the dark expanse of space makes a guy realize just how fucked he is if everything separating him from the void fails. When he first started piloting, Peter tried his best not to think about it.
These days, he has about a million other reasons he avoids that particular thought, very few of them he’s willing to speak aloud. ]
It’s like this. Space is dangerous, yeah, and it’s not really for the faint of heart, but it’s like— if you get over that hurdle, if you ignore the risks, you really can go anywhere.
[ A beat. ]
Assuming you have the means and the technology to get you where you wanna go, anyway.