As well as anyone can be in the midst of a funeral. [ which is to say, not awful, but a little prickly all the same, something he can't quite shove down all the way. ] It isn't the worst situation I've been caught up in, we'll say that.

[ a thoughtful pause, one that is warm with intrigue, mingling and stretching long like a slinky sort of animal, peering. ] It's all much nicer than Martian desert.